On Tuesday 08 May 2007 09:17, eng.waleed wrote: > Hi > > My named service when some domain is not available for small time > does not resolve it again until I restart it (it is some thing > like if it caching it as unavailable) how can I cancel that > please advice > > BR Take a look at your ARM (Administrator Resource Manual) usually found in /usr/share/doc/bind-your_version/arm and look for something like the following: max-ncache-ttl To reduce network traffic and increase performance the server stores negative answers. max-ncache-ttl is used to set a maximum retention time for these answers in the server in seconds. The default max-ncache-ttl is 10800 seconds (3 hours). max-ncache-ttl cannot exceed 7 days and will be silently truncated to 7 days if set to a greater value. Regards, Mike Klinke