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Date:      Mon, 01 Sep 1997 04:10:46 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        toor@dyson.iquest.net, mike@smith.net.au, benedict@echonyc.com, peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 
Message-ID:  <8211.873112246@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 18:13:01 %2B1000." <199709010813.SAA00583@gurney.reilly.home> 

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> I don't know much (anything) about Netscape's DNS helper, but I
> assume that it is some sort of DNS cache, to help avoid DNS traffic
> of some sort.  Why is it a good idea to have an application-specific
> DNS cache, instead of tweaking named?

Actually, I think it's intended more to avoid the "DNS deadlock"
problem you have with previous Netscapes when you have multiple
windows open and Netscape makes a DNS query for something dead or
non-existant.

					Jordan



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