named.conf option quirk - Linux vs. Solaris

[Rick Crelia]

Following up on myself...

I had a nonprintable embedded on the line, causing a syntax
error that was being logged in a place I hadn't looked. Doh!

--rc


According to Rick Crelia:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm doing some R&D and have built 8.3.3 on both Solaris and Linux as
> part of that. I added the "cleaning-interval" option to named.conf on
> each system and see two different behaviors. BTW, "cleaning-interval"
> is how long BIND waits before flushing stale records from the cache. By
> default, this value is 60 minutes:
> 
> options {
>    cleaning-interval 60;
> };
> 
> Problem:
> 
> On Solaris, the cleaning interval is changeable. That is, if I use
> 120 instead of 60, then the cache is flushed every 2 hours instead of
> every hour.
> 
> On Linux, BIND ignores the setting and the cache is flushed every 60
> minutes no matter how I set cleaning-interval.
> 
> I checked the CHANGES, TODO, etc. to no avail. Has anyone else
> seen this behavior? Am I missing something obvious that is a
> function of the platform difference?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> --rc
> 
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