Un-caching bad data?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:26:48PM -0500, Mike McMahon wrote:
> Is there a way to "force" a DNS server to obtain
> an "authoritative" answer? What I mean is, say a
> DNS server has bad data in its cache, and the corresponding
> TTL was long, can I do anything (other than kill -HUP named,
> since I do not have control of that system) to "empty" the
> cached data for a particular lookup?
> 
> Mike McMahon
> my.last.name.here at activewire.net

kill -HUP wouldn't even work.  You'd have to kill it and restart it.
Better get teh e-mail address of that server's hostmaster.  ;-}

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