Cache still not expiring...

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Hey guys... resending my question, hoping it will generate some more
> suggestions.
> 
> Anyway, I have a reseller who keeps moving hosts and ips on a separate
> network from mine.  Then since his customers use my dial-up and DNS, they
> are not seeing the DNS changes right away.  In fact, sometimes it takes
> days... usually until I rehup my named for a DNS change on my
> network.  His complain is that our DNS returns old cached data for days
> after other DNS server's (Uu.net, Digex, MSN, etc.) serve up the fresh
> data.
> 
> My bind is 8.2.2-P5, it's hostname is ns.dandy.net.  The last hostname
> change that has taken awhile is missamerica.org.  Interestingly, the host
> name www.missamerica.org resolves correctly.  Why is my name server not
> discarded stale cache data?
> 
> Thanx in advance.
> 
> 					----Steve
> Stephen Amadei
> Dandy.net CTO
> Atlantic City, NJ

	I would be asking him why www.mca5.com is still serving a
	old copy of the zone.

	If you are using a forwarder and it is old enough you may
	be being affected by the issue addressed by change 619.
	This is only a problem if the zone is being miss managed
	by allowing multiple different versions of the zone to
	exist as is the case here.

	Mark

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.missamerica.org @www.mca5.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	www.missamerica.org, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.missamerica.org.	1D IN A		208.234.31.146

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
missamerica.org.	1D IN NS	www.mca5.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
www.mca5.com.		1D IN A		208.234.31.91

;; Total query time: 439 msec
;; FROM: drugs.dv.isc.org to SERVER: www.mca5.com  208.234.31.91
;; WHEN: Fri Sep  8 10:35:14 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 110

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