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Old January 1st 18, 03:30 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Brian Gregory
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Default Windows DNS cache

On 04/07/2016 15:38, Mayayana wrote:
| You can view the Windows DNS cache with the following command:
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| ipconfig /displaydns
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| Thanks, interesting.
.....
| I did it, and (I'm running XP) it said
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| Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
|

I was wondering what all this talk was of Windows
DNS Cache. I'd never heard of it. It should be clarified
that "Windows DNS Cache" is actually the DNS Client
service. It doesn't need to be enabled at all for most
people. It's possible that people on a network with
Active Directory may need it. I'm not familiar with
that. I suspect they don't and that it will only save
on a few intranet calls.
I've had DNS Client disabled for years and see no
reason to enable it.



You don't need it if you LAN has it's own DNS cache but I guess it might
be worth saving the 12MB of RAM it uses to save doing unnecessary DNS
lookups over the Internet.

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