nscd and DNS cache

[Joe Zeff]

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.