disabling caching on selected zones
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sun Aug 22 02:52:15 UTC 2004
In article <cg8sei$elq$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Ollie Wild <aaw at rincewind.tv>
wrote:
> Hi. I'm running a simple bind configuration on my home network. The
> bind daemon is authoritative for my local network. Any requests outside
> my local network are forwarded to my ISP:
>
> zone "." {
> type forward;
> forward only;
> forwarders {
> xx.xx.xx.xx;
> };
> };
>
> I also have a vpn to my office network, which I only enable
> occasionally. The name of our office mail server resolves externally,
> but access is disabled. Once the vpn is active, the same hostname
> resolves to an internal IP from which I can access mail.
>
> The problem is that named caches the external IP, so everytime I enable
> the vpn, I have to restart named to access my mail. Is there a way to
> explicitly configure bind to disable caching of results from a specific
> zone?
I don't think so. But if you have a script that runs to establish the
VPN, you could have it send a command to named to clear the cache.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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