Re: DLZ with cacher

Evan Hunt <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:35:37 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.bind9.dlz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The very nature of bind-dlz is that a change
> on the backend data is immediately visible on the frontend.  But if
> you're caching lookups, how would you then make bind actually use that
> changed data?  rndc reload?

rndc flush, rndc flushname, or (in recent releases) rndc flushtree.
Or just using a relatively short TTL.

> That was the main reason I went *to* the DLZ patch, to get away from
> cronjobs and zone rebuild scripts.

There are other reasons for DLZ to be useful, though.

-- 
Evan Hunt -- [email protected]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

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