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not needed. dns is already cached?
Authored by: redjar on May 04, '05 11:50:06AM

I'm pretty sure this is completely unneccessary. Mac OS X has a built-in caching deamon called lookupd. It caches DNS lookups so that the external DNS server doesn't need to be queried every time.

check out the man page: man lookupd

It makes troubleshooting tricky sometimes. To flush the cache you can do: lookupd -flushcache



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not needed. dns is already cached?
Authored by: tferraro on May 04, '05 11:36:50PM
I was having frustrating Safari slowdowns over the last few days. Spinning beachball, etc. I tried lookupd -flushcache, and it's back to snappy. Thanks.

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