- From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:43:00 -0800 (PST)
- To: Anawat Chankhunthod <chankhun@catarina.usc.edu>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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 Morris
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