nscd and DNS cache

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu May 17 07:02:51 UTC 2012


On 05/17/2012 12:21 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/17/2012 02:06 PM, JD wrote:
>> That value is already set to false.
> I'm suggesting you set it to "true" to disable IPv6.
>
>> Yes I did try Chrome.
>> Chrome resolves domain names as fast as nslookup .
>> After I browsed to a domain using Chrome, and it almost immediately
>> resolved and it brought in the page,
>> I quickly clicked on the FF workspace and browsed to same domain.
>> FF went into the looking up ......  spin dance.
>> Could it be that FF is not using same library as nslookup and Chrome?
> I'd be surprised if they used anything other than the standard gethostbyname()
>
>
That was the magic bullett!
Thanx Ed.
Strange that Chrome has IPV6 disabled by default, and FF does not.



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