I have created a forward only dns server and the clients can resolve the hostnames but I am unable to find the cache db on the bind server. Below is my configuration :

options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1;192.168.118.135;};
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
recursion yes;
allow-query { localhost;192.168.118.0/24;};
forward only;

forwarders {192.168.118.2;};
};




I am unable to find the cache_dump.db under /var/named/data/ .

Hi,

Cache is kept into memory. If you want to dump cache contents in a file (/var/named/data/cache_dump.db), use
Regards