Re: Flushing the DNS cache?
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.opera.linux |
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| Organization | I know I put it down here, somewhere. |
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Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <[email protected]> writes: > Kenneth Crudup <[email protected]> writes: [...] >> I dunno if it's 'cause of the way y'all are using libresolv (or similar), >> but it's appearing to take on the first DNS I use. Try it and see. > > I guess it is possible that the system resolver (which would be libc > on linux, I think) caches the dns server address. But even in that > case, I would assume that it only caches it per application. > > I'd be very disappointed in the desktop team if they aren't leaving > the whole job of dns resolution to the system resolver. We do cache > the addresses the dns server returns, but we should never have a > reason to know what the address of the dns server itself is. Well, if you cache the result yourself, and the team responsible for that code have done a decent job, they *can't* use the libc resolver. The default code doesn't return the TTL of results, just the result, so to be able to implement a correct DNS cache you must talk DNS directly... Just sayin' Daniel -- Opera-Linux: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/opera-linux More lists: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe