On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:49:17AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:48:41PM +0000, Rupert wrote: > > With my dyndns account the DNS records live for 60 seconds on the > > world-accessible DNS servers. This seems to be the case for the machine > > bboett.dyndns.org (see dig output below). So you have to wait for up to > > 60 seconds before the new address will be accessible through the dyndns > > name. > uhm, i am well aware of that, and i have no problems whatsoever with > it... the only to have problems with this is this "'$'$$&/'«»'«» > galeon.... > > all the other programs don't rely on their own DNS cache and treat that > address as it should: with a very fast TTL.... > > as my machine runs 24h a day, and since i don't reboot very often, nor > leave my Xsession, and since i open a quite fair amount of web pages, i > can't restart galeon all few hours.... this means that after a few hours > galeon becomes unusable for my work on my own machine for the rest of > eternity, since that f****g program never updates its DNS cache.... > > that's why i am searching a way to flush its damn cache (or if possible > disable it completely, since it causes only problems...)
The Galeon lists would probably be a better place to ask this sort of thing. As a hacky workaround, you could just add an entry on your local DNS server or your /etc/hosts thusly: localipaddress fqdn.dynamicdnsprovider.com Local apps will then always resolve fqdn to a local address, but it might be a Good Enough(tm) solution. -rob
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