Networking/DNS/Host resolver: Difference between revisions

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Note: According to [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803 Microsoft], Windows XP considers TTL in its OS cache.  The article suggests that the lesser of the real TTL or a max TTL value is used for the time to expiration in the OS's DNS cache.  The max TTL value defaults to 1 day.  Firefox makes use of this cache, so TTL may already be covered indirectly in the Windows XP case.
Note: According to [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318803 Microsoft], Windows XP considers TTL in its OS cache.  The article suggests that the lesser of the real TTL or a max TTL value is used for the time to expiration in the OS's DNS cache.  The max TTL value defaults to 1 day.  Firefox makes use of this cache, so TTL may already be covered indirectly in the Windows XP case.
Note: {{Bug|151929}} Has a discussion on including TTL in our DNS cache.


=== Concurrency without multiple threads ===
=== Concurrency without multiple threads ===
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