Non-authoritative answer

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:13:24AM +0800, Allan T. Parreno wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, now it works normal, would like to ask how to clear
> a DNS cache?

You must stop 'named' and restart it again.  With BIND 8 [or 4], there
is no other way to clear the cache.  The current preferred way is via
'nscd'; but you should do it however you feel most comfortable.  ;-)

ISTM that someone was talking about being able to clear cache in V9
without stopping the daemon and restarting it; but I don't remember
whether that was one of the design goals or an "it-would-be-nice-if".
It's not in the list at <URL: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/plans.html>.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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