Re: is diald the only/best game in town?

[Edward Doolittle]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Gyepi SAM wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:57:47PM -0400, Edward Doolittle wrote:

>> Also, in your ip-down script, I have found it helpful to restart named
>> to ensure that the cache is clean.  

> I don't think this is necessary.  Named removes stale entries from its
> cache as they expire.

It's more reliable to dump everything immediately.

> The cost of restarting named are quite small if you only serve a few
> clients or make few requests to named.  You'd notice a hit, however, if
> you were, for instance, running a mailing list or other DNS intensive
> activity. 

In that case I would:

ip-down:save the cache to disk
        stop named
        start named without reading the cache

ip-up:  read the cache from disk

Or I would ask for a static IP number from my ISP so I could avoid messing
around with that business in the first place.

Ed



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