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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Apr 19 15:50:57 2005

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:48:23 -0700
From: JC Dill <lists05@equinephotoart.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050418173517.GC980042@hiwaay.net>
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Chris Adams wrote:

>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?
>
There's an article on /. today about providers (apparently there are 
quite a lot of them) whose DNS servers are caching and ignoring DNS TTL 
settings:

<http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/198259&tid=95&tid=128&tid=4>

jc




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