Environment variables

Starting in version 5.11.0, caches can be controlled via environment variables.

All caches have a default length of 200000 and a default max age of 1800 seconds. These defaults can be overridden using the environment variables CACHE_MAX_LEN and CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS respectively.

Values for specific caches can be set using:

  • DNS_CACHE_MAX_LEN

  • DNS_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS

  • DNSSEC_CACHE_MAX_LEN

  • DNSSEC_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS

  • SMTP_CACHE_MAX_LEN

  • SMTP_CACHE_MAX_AGE_SECONDS