nscd and DNS cache

[JD]

On 05/18/2012 10:22 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/18/2012 12:22 AM, JD wrote:
>> I think that's more tolerable than
>> having to wait anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to resolve every
>> new name browsed to; (new relative to contents of the cache).
>
> If the name isn't in your cache, you're going to have to look it up 
> and using a longer TTL isn't going to change the lookup time one 
> little bit.  What it will do is keep recent addresses in the cache 
> longer so that you won't have to look them up so often.
Not so.
If I could make them live in my local cache a little longer,
lookup will be in ms rather than seconds.