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I've got a nameserver that I updated a zone file on, incremented the serial, and ran rndc reload. I then verified that named saw it in the log, and it did, without errors. But when I run dig domain.tld @localhost note: @localhost is the bind server I made the changes on. bind still see's the old A record, in its cache. Do I misunderstand how bind works? or is this a problem?

xenoterracide
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  • So I sorta figured this one out... upon further investigation by a co-working some ACL or something was preventing the query and thus we were getting a cached result. – xenoterracide Nov 05 '10 at 23:34

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According to the BIND Administrator's Reference Manual, reload reloads configuration files and zones. Only. Verify that you get the response from the correct nameserver.

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  • well considering localhost is the nameserver and I did it `@localhost`. so according to the manual it wouldn't clear the cache for that zone, if I understand what you're saying correctly? – xenoterracide Oct 29 '10 at 09:35
  • It does not cache information for master zones. There is something wrong with either your named.conf (is it declared as a master zone?) or with the SOA and/or NS RRs of your zone. – adamo Oct 29 '10 at 10:31
  • I don't remember, don't think so, it was probably a cpanel addon domain. We never edit named.conf. I know it was only an A record for a subdomain that I had updated. – xenoterracide Oct 29 '10 at 12:06
  • Are we talking about your domain? For if we are, I see that it is delegated as a CNAME which makes it impossible to delegate any other information with it: http://zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/cname.html - Can you post the relevant contents of the named.conf and the zone file? Even though you do not directly edit them. – adamo Oct 29 '10 at 12:33
  • no we're not talking about my domain, and I couldn't post it. It's a customers domain at my job. tbh, I don't even know what account it is anymore, that was days ago. But I suspect the server was caching stuff it shouldn't have been. – xenoterracide Nov 01 '10 at 09:24