[bind10-dev] hardwiring negative cache entries

[Stephen Morris]

The idea of hardwiring positive cache entries has been floated as a way to handle the case of authoritative and recursive servers on one machine: have the recursive server load up the authoritative entries into its cache and mark them as non-expiring.  Hardwiring negative cache entries seems a logical extension to it.  Apart from use in production, it does occur to me that they would also be extremely useful for testing.

As to how to do it: BIND already has some commands for the inspection and manipulation of the cache (rndc dumpdb, rndc flush/flushname).  Is there a case for extending them with something like "rndc add ..."?

Stephen