CentOS - Feb 2006 - Caching DNS question

I have caching-nameserver-7.3-3 installed on a Centos 4.2 system. The 
named.conf file which comes with the install has the following options:

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
        statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
  <comments snipped>
};

However, when I look in /var/named/data there is nothing there and for 
that matter I can't find the dump-file or statistics-file anywhere on 
the hard drive. I didn't think there was any post install config for 
caching-nameserver-7.3-3. Is there something I am missing regarding the 
basic caching-nameserver install that I don't see a dump-file and/or 
statistics-file?

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Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 12:19 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
> I have caching-nameserver-7.3-3 installed on a Centos 4.2 system. The 
> named.conf file which comes with the install has the following options:
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>   <comments snipped>
> };
> 
> However, when I look in /var/named/data there is nothing there and for 
> that matter I can't find the dump-file or statistics-file anywhere on 
> the hard drive. I didn't think there was any post install config for 
> caching-nameserver-7.3-3. Is there something I am missing regarding the 
> basic caching-nameserver install that I don't see a dump-file and/or 
> statistics-file?
----
check /var/named/chroot/var/named/data

Craig

Am Sa, den 11.02.2006 schrieb Paul R. Ganci um 20:19:
> I have caching-nameserver-7.3-3 installed on a Centos 4.2 system. The 
> named.conf file which comes with the install has the following options:
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>   <comments snipped>
> };
> 
> However, when I look in /var/named/data there is nothing there and for 
> that matter I can't find the dump-file or statistics-file anywhere on 
> the hard drive. I didn't think there was any post install config for 
> caching-nameserver-7.3-3. Is there something I am missing regarding the 
> basic caching-nameserver install that I don't see a dump-file and/or 
> statistics-file?
Those files aren't created automatically. The options settings only tell
bind where to store them. Run

rndc stats
rndc dumpdb

and you'll have those 2 output files.

Alexander


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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Those files aren't created automatically. The options settings only tell
>bind where to store them. Run
>
>rndc stats
>rndc dumpdb
>  
>
Thanks, I was afraid I was missing something. I could not find much on 
them Googling. The named_stats.txt file contents seem obvious and while 
there is a "rndc dumpdb" I don't see a corresponding "rndc
loaddb"? So
there seems to be no way to use the cache dump snapshot for a backup 
purpose. Therefore, what purpose does the cache_dump.db file serve?

-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)