/etc/resolv.conf changes

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Mar 25 19:22:08 UTC 2008


On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:48:35 +0900
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 16:40:59 +0900,
> >   John Summerfield <debian at 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.
> 
> You mightn't, but I did a little googling.

If my memory is good the caching nameserver or cache only nameserver go
back a good deal further, maybe even before Linux. I'd have to dig out
old old versions of named and read the docs but I think it may even have
been used in the documentation of the time.




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