Re: Reducing the 2560 negative cache default

Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> Mon, 17 May 2010 11:49:26 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The question was, must a Z record be used in order to change the value of min (that's Minimum, or in these enlightened times, Negative Cache Lifetime)?

Yes.  That field is not available with a "." line.

> Which begs the question, what does dnscache use "min" for, the former or the latter?

The fields in the Z line go directly into the SOA record.  (Also,
dnscache never touches a data or data.cdb file directly.)