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Subject: Re: DNS cache? 
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:35:48 -0700
From: Donald Acton <acton@opentext.com>
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> Annelise Anderson wrote:

> > Thanks very much--I set it up.  It shows up in ps and top so I assume
> > it's running--guess there's no way to find out what it's cached?
> 
> 	send a SIGINT to the named process "kill -INT `cat /var/run/named.pid`"
> 	the cached data will be in /var/tmp/named_dump.db

You might also want to check out ndc the " name daemon control interface" 
command, it essentially puts a nice wrapper around all the various signals  
and control functions you might want to apply to named.

Donald Acton
acton@opentext.com