Looking to clear cache manually...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37ea7172.45416798 at news>,
Jeff Carnahan <jcarnahan at networq.com> wrote:
>I'm looking to clear my RR cache manually. To be more specific, my ISP
>has recently changed the DNS name assigned to my static IP. The
>problem is that a remote server that I routinely work on still has the
>older DNS name in it's cache, so when it looks up my IP address (which
>hasn't changed) it's getting the OLD DNS name my ISP was using.
>
>Is there a way, manually, to expire RR's from my cache even though
>their TTL expiration times haven't reached zero?

The only way to clear the cache is to restart named.  However, if the
problem is on a remote server, clearing your cache won't do any good.  You
have to get the operator of the remote server to clear *his* cache.

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