what does "max-ncache-ttl 0;" mean?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Wed Mar 2 13:32:16 UTC 2016


>MURTARI, JOHN <jm5903 at att.com> wrote:
>> So far, all the postings I've seen just echo what he already said (and
>> knows).  The question is - what happens when you set it to ZERO?
>>
>> I'm wondering myself - anyone have a real answer?

On 02.03.16 13:29, Tony Finch wrote:
>The code says zero means zero, so in effect it would disable negative
>cacheing.

which means, DON'T DO THAT. anyone searching for nonexisting DNS names (e.g.
because of a misconfiguration) could easily DoS your server.
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