ISC-CACHE

Description: Monitors BIND DNS resolver cache statistics and query counters from ISC.

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ISC-CACHE is a stub/minimal MIB associated with ISC BIND, intended to expose DNS resolver cache configuration and statistics for a BIND-based name server. Given its stub nature, it defines only a small set of cache-related configuration objects rather than a full statistics suite. Its monitoring relevance is software/service-level: confirming the DNS caching resolver's configuration (such as a named cache instance) is present and correctly identified, which is a first step toward tracking DNS service health and cache performance. It is tied conceptually to BIND/ISC DNS software rather than any hardware MIB, and typically would be supplemented by BIND's own statistics-channel or vendor-specific extensions for deeper query counters. Deployment context is any server running ISC BIND as a caching DNS resolver. Engineers can download the ISC-CACHE file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

The source module description explicitly calls this a stub containing only DNS cache configuration objects, so it should not be assumed to expose a full statistics table beyond what's listed. An administrator would check cacheCfgName to confirm which named cache instance is being reported on a BIND server, using it as an identity check rather than a source of live performance counters. Deeper query-rate or cache-hit statistics would need to come from BIND's own extended statistics interfaces, not from this stub MIB.

Vendor-specific MIB for ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) DNS cache or BIND-related services; manages caching statistics and performance monitoring for DNS operations.