[Gllug] /etc/hosts caching

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 02 Jun Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Microsoft implementations notwithstanding, negative caching is a Good
> Thing[tm], of course.

Only when done properly, which is more difficult than it looks.

"your nameserver didn't respond in time therefore i'm going to pretend
google doesn't exist until i've been rebooted" is not useful :)

doug.

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