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Re: caching dns lookups



Thanks you all for addressing my DNS question.

I cannot report any success yet. Something is still rotten my intallation of
named, probably. (!??)

> Lastly, Dan, are you sure you really want to use a DNS cache? What was the
> reason you decided you wanted one?
> In most cases a DNS cache is not useful to "ordinary" modem users. Why?
> Because typically (when the modem is not busy), your modem round-trip time 
> to your ISP's DNS would about around 130 millisec. Your ISP already carries
> a big cache in its nameserver. So all you're adding is 130 millisec to each
> DNS query. 

Nadav, am I the only one seeing 'resolving foo.bar.com' in the status line for
long seconds?

> This isn't too bad for casual web browsing and similar activity
> (and note that individual applications do cache the DNS resolutions, so
> Mozilla doesn't have to resolve the same domain name over and over).

So I really cannot explain why I sometimes get DNS errors messages
when I click 'next' on a google page. 
I'll have to tcpdump to the bottom of it.

Dan.

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