18 Apr
2005
18 Apr
'05
2:36 p.m.
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@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. -- TTFN, patrick