(usagi-users 02096) Re: No DNS replies caching?

[Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Thursday, January 16, 2003 08:54:22 AM -0500 Noah Meyerhans
<noahm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>> Is there no DNS reply caching on AAAA records, on the client?
>> I'm running iperf (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/) with
>> multiple  threads (-P <numofthreads>) and it seems that it is
>> doing DNS requests  for every connection, although they all go to
>> the same destination, and  a reply, at least for the first, was
>> already given!
> 
> The stub resolver in libc doesn't cache anything, IPv4 or v6 on any
> OS that I know of.  Install bind.

What about "nscd"? Never tested personally, but someone told me that
it caches lookups on client systems, if installed and configured
properly.

        Peter

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