How do I configure multiple views to share the same recursive cache?

The attach-cache option is used to configure cache-sharing between views.

attach-cache cache_name;

By default, each view has its own unique cache.  When using the attach-cache option, you can specify a name for the cache that named creates for a view.  If multiple views share the same cache name, then as the additional views are created, instead of creating a new cache for each, named links the views to the same cache.

See the Administrator Reference Manual (ARM) for more detail.

However, caches can only be shared if they have identical policies.  Here are the settings that, if inconsistent between two caches with the same name, will result in named failing to start :

• check-names
• cleaning-interval
• zero-no-soa-ttl
• max-cache-size
• max-cache-ttl
• max-ncache-ttl
• max-stale-ttl (from BIND 9.12)
• dnssec-validation (note that this is only effective with trust anchors and/or DLV configured)
• dnssec-accept-expired

An error will be logged and named will fail to start if attach-cache is used to configure cache-sharing between views with different cache policies.  Here is an example of this type of failure:

03-Dec-2012 12:15:47.231 views internal-only and external can't share the cache due to configuration parameter mismatch
03-Dec-2012 12:15:47.231 loading configuration: failure
03-Dec-2012 12:15:47.231 exiting (due to fatal error)