On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:24:31PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost > by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites > (e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time. www.apple.com has a 50 second DNS timeout (TTL). It is cached by dnsmasq, but only for 50 seconds.