Will restarting the system flush BIND (named) cache?

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Will restarting the system flush BIND (named) cache? I use GNU/Linux.

pQd · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-01T18:29:47.177

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yes it will; but you dont have to reboot the server; try:

rndc flush

or just restart bind

edited Sep 01 '11 at 18:29

answered Aug 31 '11 at 12:24

pQd

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Thanks. But actually, I did not want it to flush cache on restart. In fact I wanted it to keep the cache as long as possible, unless I said `rndc flush`. :-) – Akilan Sep 02 '11 at 06:48
Is there an option to prevent flushing cache on restart? – Akilan Sep 02 '11 at 07:52
@Akilan - you can dump current cache with rndc dumpdb ; but i dont think it's possible to reload such data [ see here https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2002-November/042297.html ] – pQd Sep 02 '11 at 08:55

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