On 05/16/2012 04:27 PM, JD wrote:
I have used dnsmasq as well, and communicated with it's author a couple of years ago. But as I recall, it did not seem to help much, as I observed that browsing to a website with just a couple of minutes lapse time, FF showed on the status line it was looking up the domain. Perhaps the cache expiry was set to a very short time?
2 things may be coming into play.....
1st it "could" be that there is a cache time setting in dnsmasq.
2nd the owners of a domain, and by definition, who control the settings of the master DNS server for their domains set up a TTL for their records. If they set this to a low value you may see this problem. As a mater of fact, I've seen cases where the TTL has been set to as low as 300 seconds.