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

  • From: Chris Adams
  • Date: Mon Apr 18 13:36:24 2005 
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?

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

That's what most Unix/Linux/*BSD boxes do unless they are running a
local caching name service of some time (BIND, nscd, etc.).  I wasn't
actually aware that Windows had a DNS cache service.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.