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by **Otavio Ex** » Sat, 23 May 1998 04:00:00

hi everybody,

I'm about to install bind in my linux box (Debian 1.3); someone told me
that the bind package that debian provides does NOT cache, that an other
package has to be installed to provide caching abilities to bind;

this sounds so strange that I decided do check with you linux gurus..

could someone confirm this? also what's the name of this other package?

thanks & beers,

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by **William Lew** » Sat, 23 May 1998 04:00:00

>I'm about to install bind in my linux box (Debian 1.3); someone told me
>that the bind package that debian provides does NOT cache, that an other
>package has to be installed to provide caching abilities to bind;

I've never run across a version of BIND that doesn't do caching. I'm more
likely to install BIND to cache lookups than to serve actual dns zones.

Even the resolver stuff in libc does caching, as far as I know, although
it only caches within one process. Having a single cache for the
entire host or local network can speed things up a bit.
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