Re: www clients and dns

hgs@research.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne)

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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 12:59:17 EDT
From: hgs@research.att.com (Henning G. Schulzrinne)
To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu, dcmartin@library.ucsf.edu
Subject: Re: www clients and dns
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch

DNS already caches replies. Having two caches with roughly the same
functionality except that one is only populated for a small fraction
of the name queries (www), but with different time-outs and weird
consistency issues, unless the www cache times out well before the
shortest DNS time out.

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