Re: flush ircd's dns cache ?

[Robert Martin-Legene <robert-spam99@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Krome Plasma wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:29:23PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> > some DNSes were changed on machine where ircd runs. Anyway ircd has still
> > old info's; is there any way to flus dns cache except restarting ircd ?
> > 
> > btw, as I'm looking on TTL and SOA it seems those infos should already be
> > expired... is that a bug ?
> 
> Hm yes I think it doesn't know when something in resolv.conf changes,
> noticed that too..

resolv.conf is only read the first time a process does a lookup, never
again (at least when using the standard resolver library).

ircd caches by itself though, but the only thing I've seen changed is that
respect is that the minimum TTL is 600 seconds..

-- robert