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

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> Here we go again...
>
> http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10595-5657417.html?tag=nl.e044
>
> My initial reaction is "why?"  My followup reaction is "Well, most
> workstations don't cache anyway, do they?"

Depends on what you call "caching".  Does honoring a TTL qualify as  
caching?

Can you imagine what would happen if every time anyone ever looked up  
any hostname they sent out a DNS query?

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TTFN,
patrick