On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 16:40:59 +0900,
John Summerfield <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
So far as I can tell, and Ive been using RHL and its successors since
RHL 3.0.3, "caching nameserver" is a term invented by RH.
I don't think so.
Whatever, it describes a name server that is authoritative for no
zones.
It does iterative lookups rather than publish information. Typically it
is a good idea to separate dns caches from dns publishers.
Generally speaking, every DNS caches. _My_ DSNs are responsible for
some
domains such as office.lan, demo.roon and so on, may refer to other
nameservers I maintain and either refer to my IAP's DNS for public
If a server is just a publisher it doesn't need to cache data data from
other domains (than it is authoritative for).