I've seen DNS lookups take over 3 seconds, but then I'm on a slow ADSL
connection with a high error rate. I'm guessing the 3 seconds is due to
UDP retries as the first few attempts get trashed on my crappy line.

I don't know why LMS appears to not suffer the horrible Windows DNS
cache. Maybe (wild guess) there's a way for an application to say it
doesn't want the cache? It could always do the DNS lookups itself as raw
UDP traffic and then call the Windows socket API using the resulting IP
addresses. But I have seen requests to my dnsmasq server for BBC
addresses, Akamai, mysqueezebox.com and others related to LMS activity,
so it is going to the DNS address my router's DHCP gives out. I guess it
couldn't really use any other DNS address, but there's no reason it
couldn't use it directly as an IP address to send UDP traffic to.


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