dns cache on a desktop

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Sun Dec 10 05:16:52 PST 2006


On Sunday December 10, 2006 at 01:20:37 (AM) Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:


> On 12/10/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> > In the last episode (Dec 09), Jonathan Horne said:
> > > how can i flush the dns cache on my desktop system?  google turns up
> > > plenty on how to do it in linux or osx... but not freebsd.  can
> > > someone clue me in?
> >
> > Just bounce named:  /etc/rc.d/named restart
> >
> > If you are not running named, you have no cache to flush :)
> >
> > --
> 
> Is there away to cache dns for faster lookup, I don't run named? I use DHCP.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html

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Gerard


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