Re: Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

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On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 19:08:53 Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> >> Why do you think dnscache won't help?  Caching is not restricted to your
> >> local domain.
> > 
> > I guess I forgot to mention that only the first query is slow.  If you
> > repeat the query, the response is fast, so it's already being cached
> > somewhere.  I always assumed that's how DNS worked.  So in order to test
> > this "slowness", I have to keep thinking of domains to look up.
> 
> DNS servers normally do cache, but clients don't.  Are you running
> named locally on each machine and pointing resolv.conf to localhost?

He's running nscd which caches DNS (group 'hosts' in /etc/nscd.conf).


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