[ale] Correct way to update cache DNS

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Wed Aug 1 16:24:40 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:54 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I was having problems resolving www.amsat.org from my office.  At
> Quality services it can be resolved easily.  There I use their dns
> server.  In my office I use a caching server.  I figured it was best to
> update named.ca.  It has been 2003 since I've don it.
> 
> I ran this:
> 
>  dig @m.root-servers.net. ns . > db.cache.tmp
>  mv db.cache.tmp /var/named/named.ca
>  /etc/init.d/named restart
> 
> I still could not ping it.  The only way was to use the Qualty DNS
> server address in /etc/resolv.conf at home.  What was I doing wrong?
> 

try  "rndc flush"

-Jim P.




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