[Pdns-users] Reducing max cache time for specific domain

[bert hubert]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 06:15:05PM +0000, Mark K. Murdock wrote:
> The challenge I'm having, is I'd like the Recursor to have a rich cache of
> Internet records, according to the TTL set by those zones/records, but for
> our internal domains I would like the Recursor to do pretty limited
> caching.  Basically I am looking for a per-domain "max-cache-ttl" setting. 

The only out-of-the-box solution is to run two recursors, one with
max-cache-ttl=300, the other one setup as the default. Your users talk to
the recursor with the default settings, and in the configuration there you
setup the max-cache-ttl limited recursor as a forwarder for your internal
domains (forward-zones-recurse= for forward-zones-file with the syntax
described on doc.powerdns.com).

You can bind the max-cache-ttl limited recursor to port 5353 for example so
it does not take up another IP address.

To run two recursors, use the --config-name option. 

Good luck!

	Bert