Win2k caches ip addr. after name resolution from dns?

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Tue Sep 25 06:29:54 UTC 2001


On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:21:00PM -0700, Pete Ehlke wrote:
> 
> Well, yes and no. IE 5 seems to do a fairly decent job with dns response
> caching, but win2k itself, at the OS level, is almost irretrievably
> broken in this respect. It implements a local resolver cache, similar to
> Sun's nscd, that cannot be turned off and which seems to, at the very

I turn this off and on with 'net stop dnscache' and 'net start dnscache'
on win2k all the time. Have you tried that?
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