Force TTL on a Caching Name Server

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Elzey, Blaine A (Blaine) wrote:

Note however that it's not possible (but occasionally requested) in BIND 
to do the OPPOSITE -- i.e. override SHORT ttls with longer values.

There have been a number of buggy patches that do this over the years.

-Dan

> max-cache-ttl 300; should do it for cached RRs.
>
> Blaine Elzey
> LWS VitalQIP
> Lucent Technologies
> BElzey at Lucent.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of howting at gmail.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:44 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Force TTL on a Caching Name Server
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am not sure if this can be done, but I would like to set up a caching name server that only caches results for a maximum of 5 minutes. That is, I would like to override the result's TTL, refresh, retry etc to only 5 minutes. Effectively, the nameserver must do a fresh lookup every 5 minutes.
>
> Is this achievable in bind? If so, what configuration should I use?
>
> Thank you.
>
>

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