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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Apr 18 11:51:01 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050418114506.C29528@cgi.jachomes.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:50:11 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Here we go again...
>
> http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10595-5657417.html?tag=nl.e044
>
> My initial reaction is "why?" My followup reaction is "Well, most
> workstations don't cache anyway, do they?"
Depends on what you call "caching". Does honoring a TTL qualify as
caching?
Can you imagine what would happen if every time anyone ever looked up
any hostname they sent out a DNS query?
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TTFN,
patrick
