How often is it suggested to restart Bind8 ?

[Cricket Liu]

> let's not get carried away,  if there's something in the cache then it
will
> most likely be used again before the TTL expires,
> however you should check to see if entries are expiring as they should.

"Most likely"?  Howo do you know?  That would depend on what your
resolvers are looking up and the time to live on the cached records.

> i only worked briefly with BIND 8.xxx but i THINK i heard somehere from
> someone that you have the ability of changing the TTL value on cached
> entries (make them stay longer or die sooner)

No, only for negatively cached records.  Kevin mentioned that.  It's an
options substatement called max-ncache-ttl.

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