On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 19:08:53 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Alfred von Campe <alf...@von-campe.com> wrote: > >> Why do you think dnscache won't help? Caching is not restricted to your > >> local domain. > > > > I guess I forgot to mention that only the first query is slow. If you > > repeat the query, the response is fast, so it's already being cached > > somewhere. I always assumed that's how DNS worked. So in order to test > > this "slowness", I have to keep thinking of domains to look up. > > DNS servers normally do cache, but clients don't. Are you running > named locally on each machine and pointing resolv.conf to localhost?
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