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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Apr 18 14:04:34 2005
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:02:46 -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:
> 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).
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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.
