Can I disable caching without disabling recursion?

Answered Mon, 22 Jul 2002

Subject: Can I configure my DNS doing recursive querying but not caching
what it get?

> I have a question as the subject of this mail.

You can't disable caching entirely, or your name server wouldn't be
able to complete its processing of recursive queries. (It would time
out the com NS records before using them, for example.) But you
can use the max-cache-ttl and max-cache-size options substatements
to limit the TTL on cached records and the size of the cache.
max-cache-ttl is supported on BIND 9.0.0 and later name servers,
while max-cache-size is supported on 9.2.0 and later.

cricket