Re: Caching DNS

"'Chip' [email protected] [blat]" <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:43:09 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.blat
Message-ID	<7DC35F287E8A4EC18884470FC6915355@chip>

> Thank you, Chip.  Here's more info... 
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> My application is written in FoxPro and  running in a Windows environment on AWS.  Users connect via a Remote Desktop Connection.  So, everything (including Blat) is running on Amazon's server; nothing is running on the user's computer.  I think my client's IT dept is ok, but maybe we're wondering about the collective minds of the IT dept of the client's email server provider.
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> In my configuration, am I using Amazon's DNS server?  Does it cache?  And do I have any control over whether it is caching?

Since your application and Blat are both running directly on Amazon’s computers, the name resolution is being handled by Amazon’s DNS servers.  As an application running in Amazon’s cloud, you have no control over the DNS servers.

Chip