On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:04:43PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Yes, I thought about this later. I assumed either ping or the OS > itself would cache DNS queries, but I guess this doesn't happen. > The issue went away pretty soon. >
Bug #109709 is a wishlist item requesting that ping do some DNS caching. It doesn't currently. The OS itself doesn't do DNS caching either, so if you want to cache DNS lookups, you should install bind9 and configure it as a caching resolver, probably listening only on the loopback interface. I'm going to close this bug... noah
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