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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Apr 18 14:37:17 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050418180246.GD980042@hiwaay.net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:36:45 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> 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).
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
