Named / cache

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Vu Pham wrote:

> Running "top" on that server shows named took 67% memory and the load
> average was 1.50. After stopping/starting named, everything works fine.

I would say, you need 512Mb for a busy DNS server running BIND.

> So, does named keeps the cache forever and never clear the old entries ?

Normally DNS servers will check the TTL for the zone and expire cache
entries that have expired.