[Pdns-users] PDNS-recursor: confusion with "rec_control wip-cache"

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello Christian,

On Feb 17, 2012, at 14:33 , Christian Adler wrote:

> I'm really confused about this command.
> 
> pdns-recursor 3.3
> 
> The command "rec_control --socket-dir=/var/pdns/ wipe-cache www.mcs.de"
> I got
> 
> 	wiped 0 records, 0 negative records
> 
> then I start a new request "dig www.mcs.de" and get an old answer
> (recognized on the remaining TTL)
> 
> 
> Looks like the wipe-cache-command did not work properly?!

Do you happen to be running your recursor behind a pdns_server process with 'recursor=127.0.0.1' or the like? If so, can you check directly with the recursor?

Kind regards,
Peter van Dijk