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LS> == Larry Snyder <larry@gator.use.com>

 LS> We are using a cached name server (it works fine, and it appears
 LS> that as the machine is up and running for a couple of days, it
 LS> really gets faster since I assume the name to IP addresses are
 LS> in the cache verses requiring a lookup via the DNS - does anyone
 LS> know of a good book that explains how and why this works? and what
 LS> would be required to run a complete namesever locally).

The new OR&A Nutshell book on DNS & BIND is quite good.  I've been doing
this stuff for a while, and I still found it useful (and learned stuff from
it).

As for "complete", don't bother; you don't want to save stuff to disk that
you're not being authoritative for, because the TTLs will get stale.
(Sure, that means it takes a day or two for your cache to fill, but that's
life; the same thing happens to your disk buffers...)
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