[Gllug] /etc/hosts caching

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Wed Jun 2 21:09:23 UTC 2004


Hi Doug,

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, Doug Winter wrote:

> Microsoft hasn't realised this yet, and has it's own DNS cache in win2k
> (dunno about me or xp or whatever it's called).  Bizarrely it even
> caches negatives, which can cause immense problems in networks with
> shonky dns servers (i.e. Microsoft DNS Server).

Microsoft implementations notwithstanding, negative caching is a Good
Thing[tm], of course.

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