Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations

Mon Apr 18 18:36:45 UTC 2005

On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at 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  
> for
> each 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.

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TTFN,
patrick