On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 08:11:03AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:22:16PM -0600, Alex Flex wrote:
> > My question is: How can I disable all types of caching in the pdns
> > recursor so that all my requests are always forwarded to upstream?
> 
> PowerDNS uses its cache as a "knowledge base" during recursion, so if you
> take away its memory, it has no idea what it is doing.
> 
> But, if you set max-cache-ttl=1, packetcache-ttl=0,
> packetcache-servfail-ttl=0, you should get a long way.
> 
>       Bert
> 

Another method that has been used has been to setup a record like

*.monitoring.example.com IN A 127.0.0.1

and then ask stuff like dig "`date +%s`.monitoring.example.com"

Aki

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