how to modify the cache

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Feb 14 15:19:57 UTC 2014


In article <mailman.2257.1392386898.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Ben Croswell <ben.croswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can't modify cache.  If that was allowed you could cache poison any
> domain you wanted.

"poisoning" refers to putting incorrect records into the cache of some 
*other* server. If you operate the server itself, you can put anything 
you want into its memory. If you want to override a particular record 
that would normally be cached, just make the server authoritative for 
that name.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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