Raj Mathur wrote:
> More to the point, the second time
> you hit an IP you get it from your local named instead of having to go
> to the 'net each time to do a lookup: the first call puts the IP in
> named's cache and the second time onwards uses the cached IP.
With Windows, the winsock layer caches answers. On a W2K/XP box, try
ipconfig /flushdns
to flush this cache.
The glibc layer also did this, at least till 2.1. You could run nscd for a
larger cache.
--
Sanjeev
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