Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:52:16 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Martin Petraschek <petraschek@ftw.at> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Viewing DNS cache entries Message-ID: <425421D0.8010607@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <BLACKHOLENtzsG06vdG000027b7@mail.ftw.at> References: <BLACKHOLENtzsG06vdG000027b7@mail.ftw.at>
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Martin Petraschek wrote: [ ... ] > Thank you, Dan. I was not aware of the fact that FreeBSD does not cache > DNS entries unless you are running a name server. At least some versions of the standard C library will cache the last DNS looked up, and reuse that value if the process asks about the same host again. That turns out to be almost free to do, and is still reasonably helpful for many cases. However, FreeBSD does not have a global cache the way Windows does, or things like nscd (Solaris) or lookupd (MacOS X)... -- -Chuck
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