Question about "rndc flushname"
bsfinkel at anl.gov
bsfinkel at anl.gov
Tue Feb 9 21:40:55 UTC 2010
bsfinkel at anl.gov wrote:
>> On a mail machine I am running a cache-only DNS - BIND 9.6.1-P3.
>> When I dump the cache I see two lines:
>>
>> ; answer
>> brainpower-austria.at. 6622 MX 5 mx1.bon.at.
>>
>> I then enter
>>
>> ./rndc flushname brainpower-austria.at
>>
>> But when I then look at the cache, I still see the MX record (with a
>> shorter TTL). Why is the "flushname" command not flushing this MX
>> record from the cache? Thanks.
Cathy Almond <cathya at isc.org> replied:
>rndc flushname for an MX record is working for me (it is even working
>for this MX record).
>
>Is perhaps your mailserver's cache-only server forwarding to another
>nameserver which has this cached still and then your mailserver is
>querying again in between your rndc flushname and your check of cache?
>
>How are you checking cache?
>
>Cathy
I was testing on a cache-only name server, and I did not realize that
the record in question would have been in the cache on the name server
that it queried to get the information. I reran the test on a name
server that is not cache-only, and the "rndc flushname" worked as
expected.
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