<div dir="ltr">As a follow-up to your answer for question #2, after my clearing the cache or restarting BIND, won't BIND find an old cache of "<a href="http://ftp.example.com">ftp.example.com</a>" in the ".com" top level DNS server ?<div><br><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br>Danny</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:51 PM, John Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmill@brandeis.edu" target="_blank">johnmill@brandeis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Danny Sinang <<a href="mailto:d.sinang@gmail.com">d.sinang@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Our vendor is changing their FTP server's IP address tomorrow.<br>
><br>
> 1. How can I tell how long their DNS change will propagate to us ?<br>
<br>
Whatever TTL you have cached when the vendor makes the switch is how<br>
long it'll take for your caching servers to pick up the change.<br>
<br>
> a. Do I just run dig a "<a href="http://ftp.example.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp.example.com</a>" and look for the TTL for that<br>
> DNS entry ?<br>
> b. Every time I run that command, the TTL is shrinking. How do I find<br>
> out the full TTL for it ?<br>
<br>
If you want to know the full TTL, ask the company's NSs directly -<br>
authoritative servers only give out the full TTL.<br>
<br>
> 2. Can I just restart BIND tomorrow to clear its cache and force it to query<br>
> the "<a href="http://example.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">example.com</a>" name server for "<a href="http://ftp.example.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp.example.com</a>" (so as not to wait for<br>
> the propagation to reach us) ?<br>
<br>
Sure can. Depending on your BIND version, you can also run rndc<br>
flushname <name> and it'll clear just that name from your cache.<br>
<br>
If the TTL is very long, don't forget about client-side caching as<br>
well. Windows and OS X cache DNS lookups by default.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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