Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations
Erik Amundson
Erik.Amundson at oati.net
Mon Apr 18 17:45:57 UTC 2005
Windows definitely caches DNS entries...but as far as I've seen, it does
honor TTLs...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Adams [mailto:cmadams at hiwaay.net]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:35 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on
workstations
Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at 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 at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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