On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Anawat Chankhunthod wrote: > I have some additional ideas. Danzig., et.al (SIGCOMM92 ??) shows that > NEGATIVE caching DNS will help to reduce DNS traffic quite a bit. > Negative cache means when DNS lookup fail (may be after 2-3 trails) for > that particular host, we should cache the result (the failure) for a short > time to avoid subsequent look up (which likely to fail again). Say 2 minutes. While this is a useful suggestion, it doesn't fall in the domain of being a security issue. It might be considered for an HTTP implementation recommendations document. Dave MorrisReceived on Monday, 1 April 1996 03:44:36 EST
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