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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Apr 18 13:35:44 2005
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:35:17 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> said:
> Depends on what you call "caching". Does honoring a TTL qualify as
> caching?
What other kind of DNS caching is there?
> Can you imagine what would happen if every time anyone ever looked up
> any hostname they sent out a DNS query?
That's what most Unix/Linux/*BSD boxes do unless they are running a
local caching name service of some time (BIND, nscd, etc.). I wasn't
actually aware that Windows had a DNS cache service.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
