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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Mon Apr 18 14:37:59 2005 
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:


Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <[email protected]> said:


Most desktop OSes do not re-query for the name again.
Don't confuse apps and OSes. If I run "lynx", it does a DNS lookup for
each connect (even when it is the same hostname).
I wasn't.

Notice I said: "Sometimes this is a browser issue. Sometimes it is an OS issue."

End of day, most OSes do cache DNS replies, and many apps further cache answers.

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TTFN,
patrick