Flush cache only for one domain

Chris Thompson cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Fri Aug 1 13:23:23 UTC 2008


On Aug 1 2008, ram wrote:

>I sometimes have issues where some domains remain unresolvable ( their
>NS is down ) for sometime and then my caching bind server just caches
>the result even after the problem is solved
>
>Until I restart named, bind gives no DNS records.  ( or until cache
>times out ) 
>
>Is there a way I tell bind named for just 1 domain requery the DNS
>records and dont resolve from cache 

Use "rndc flushname [name]", available from BIND 9.3 onwards.

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk


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