Re: "who" is guilty - "named" is not!!!

["Eloy A. Paris" <eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com>]

Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:

: [snip]
: > 
: > The first time I type "who" it is very slow because it has to go out
: > to the Net to know that the host does not exist. After the first time
: > "who" is faster because the information (about the invalid host names)
: > is cached.
: > 
: And that explains the short caching times; named probably only caches
: DNS lookup failures for a default minimum time.

I agree.

E.-

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Eloy A. Paris
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Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
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