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Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:36:45 -0400
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 foreach 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.
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Jay R. Ashworth (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Chris Adams (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Chris Adams (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Chris Adams (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Eric Louie (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Daniel Golding (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Jason Frisvold (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Florian Weimer (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Jason Frisvold (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Matthew Sullivan (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Randy Bush (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Rachael Treu Gomes (Apr 18)
- Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations Florian Weimer (Apr 18)