Topic: How to stop DNS Caching

[gatox]

Does anyone know how to stop DNS caching under SME v6.x ?

Get me errors sometimes and my stations can't access my external POP3 servers.  Keeps saying that Domain do not exist.

Any help would be apprciated.

regards,

Luis

[Buddha_Joe]

Disclaimer: I am new to Linux and SME

How do you have the server setup? It almost sounds as if it is acting as a stand alone dns server for your network insteading of a caching one. I had some issues with DNS when I first installed SME.. Take a look at this thread and let me know if it helps. http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=23044.0

[MarkR]

i have the same problem..

not sure if this is the correct way to resolve it but it works for now...

create a text file in: /var/service/dnscache/root/servers/
called          : changethis.com (your domain name)
containing      : ip.address.of.domain (ie 127.0.0.1) for localhost
then restart dns cache : service dnscache restart

I then created a script so that cron would do this at a regular intervals(hourly/daily/etc)