Looking to clear cache manually...

[Jeff Carnahan]

On 23 Sep 1999 12:58:12 -0700, Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com>
wrote:

>In article <37ea7172.45416798 at news>,
>Jeff Carnahan <jcarnahan at networq.com> wrote:
>>I'm looking to clear my RR cache manually. To be more specific, my ISP
>>has recently changed the DNS name assigned to my static IP. The
>>problem is that a remote server that I routinely work on still has the
>>older DNS name in it's cache, so when it looks up my IP address (which
>>hasn't changed) it's getting the OLD DNS name my ISP was using.
>>
>>Is there a way, manually, to expire RR's from my cache even though
>>their TTL expiration times haven't reached zero?
>
>The only way to clear the cache is to restart named.  However, if the
>problem is on a remote server, clearing your cache won't do any good.  You
>have to get the operator of the remote server to clear *his* cache.
>

Worked like a charm.. I guess I was expecting my system to cache to
disk instead of memory.. =)  I should have tried restarting it in the
first place.. Ohh well, you learn something new everyday..

Thanks again..
--
Jeff Carnahan