Re: Intermittent incorrect DNS resolution?

[Andrei Ivanov <ivanov_andrei () yahoo com>]

Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Microsoft broke the Internet just to make their internal networking
> work properly?
>
> I'm shocked; *shocked* I tell... yes, just put the money right over there;
> *shocked* I say.
>
> You can't imagine how much time that lost me in diagnoses when it first
> came out, until we finally located it somewhere on the Internet.


Yeah, SUNW did it even before MSFT. Ever heard about 'nscd'?!
It gets installed [but disabled by default] in any Linux distro derived
from Red Hat Linux as well. If activated, will keep resolved records
in an in-memory cache for an hour with all default settings.

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andrei