Re: Reducing the 2560 negative cache default

On 17 May 2010, at 19:49, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> 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.)

Yes, but I meant, how will dnscache interpret that field when it receives SOA records over the net in response to errors?  Will it actually honour min as it is done by BIND, EG cache the error for that time?

Cheers,
Sabahattin