Delete Cache from a BIND Server

[Mark Whitsett]

Cricket,

You can't flush individual entries? This is not a feature of Bind9..?

-Mark Whitsett
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Cricket Liu wrote:

> 
> > Can someone point me to any information about deleting specific DNS cache 
> > entries.?  I'm looking for information on the following builds.
> > 
> > BIND 8.2.2-P7,
> > BIND 8.2.3 All versions and
> 
> You can't flush individual cached entries with BIND 8, but you can
> flush the entire cache with:
> 
> # ndc restart
> 
> > BIND9
> 
> >From 9.0.0 to 9.1.3, you must kill and restart the name server.  In
> 9.2.0 and 9.2.1, you can use:
> 
> # rndc flush
> 
> and in 9.3.0, you'll be able to use:
> 
> # rndc flushname <name>
> 
> cricket
> 
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