Cache Question

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Wed Aug 9 10:13:03 UTC 2000


>>>>> "Karim" == M BOURENANE Karim <karim at rain.fr> writes:

    Karim> Tom Kondoff wrote:
    >>  Is there any way to manually flush the DNS cache in BIND 8.2.2
    >> P5 on RH linux?

    Karim> See also
    Karim> ndc dumpdb

Not quite. Maybe there's an ambiguity about the meaning of "flush"
when it's translated into French? [Je ne connais pas, ma Francaise est
trop mal.] The dumpdb command of ndc writes an ASCII version of the
cache to a file. In English, most people use the term "flush" to mean
"discard". Dumping the cache to a file with ndc doesn't get rid of the
data that's in the name server's cache. I suspect that's what the
original poster wanted to do. If so, the only way to do that with BIND
is to restart the server.



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