Firefox Loses DNS in F10 (also: UDP checksum errors for DNS queries)
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Dec 3 00:36:57 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 15:33 -0200, Andre Costa wrote:
> I bet this is why no local DNS cache can help with Google addresses
> since they expire so quickly. Weird thing is that, on this short
> monitoring I did (a couple of minutes only), none of the Google sites
> (aside from the main sites such as www.google.com and mail.google.com)
> had a TTL > 5min. Has this always been this way?
I'm not surprised. Since they maintain a large number of distinct
servers, and want to spread the load around, having different IP results
for DNS look-ups is one simple, and quite effective, way of doing that.
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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686
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