reload but the old value linger

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 21.11.20 00:18, Boylan, Ross wrote:
>My fix for the DNS lookup problems I reported a few days ago, based on help
> here, seems to mostly work.  But there is one oddity.  When the tunnel
> goes down I comment out the special handling for the zone I reach through
> the tunnel and reload the server.  But my DNS queries return the same
> internal IP number I got before, at least for awhile.
>
>Since I can't reach the remote machine anyway, this is probably a pretty
> minor problem, but I'd like to understand what's going on and how I might
> fix it.
>
>My theory is that reloading (via rndc reload) does not clear the cache, and
> that my queries just get the cached value until they expire.  Is that
> plausible?

yes.
>If that is the problem, would rndc flushtree ucsf.edu inside remove the no
>longer valid values from the cache?  ucsf.edu is the domain for which I
>forward, and it is accessible from the "inside" view.

yes.

>--------------------- ucsf.conf.tunnel----------------
>zone "ucsf.edu" {
>     type forward;
>     forwarders {10.10.10.10;};
>     };
>------------------------------------

The nameserver doesn't resolve records that are in the cache and still
valid.

This section is thus used only when it has to resolve under ucsf.edu
something that is not in cache.

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