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From: unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca
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On 2009-12-10, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>
> I own a minimal domain with a single Linux (web, DNS, e-mail, etc.)
> server.
>
> I happen to travel all over and stay in hotels in the USA and abroad
> which sometimes may subscribe to "el cheapo" ISPs which try to
> minimize the DNS queries and for some reason queries to my DNS server
> end up in the bit bucket or something...
>
> In order to have a more robust DNS in my Windows laptop, I would like
> to implement two measures:
Uh, this is a linux newgroup, not a Windows newsgroup. You would
probably get more useful advice on windows from a Windows newsgroup.
>
> - The must be some sort of time delay to keep already resolved IP
> addresses in Windows, correct? How can I increase this time delay of
> the DNS cache?
>
> - Back when the Internet was young (and so was I, as a sysadmin at
> MIT) we had to periodically download a file (/etc/hosts) which
> contained, believe or not, the IP addresses of all the Internet
> servers. That was the standard way to work, before DNS was invented.
> Such technique is still useful, in case DNS is not resolvong my
> problems :-) The question is: Where do I hardwire IP addresses in my
> Windows laptop? They should be used only when the regular DNS fails.
There is an equivalent of /etc/hosts on Windows. Putting the addresses
of your most used sites in there would be immensely helpful in not
using DNS at all. hosts is almost always used before DNS-- far faster. I
suppose you could switch the order, but I have no idea how to do that on
Windows ( /etc/nsswitch on Linux)
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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