client behavior - cname vs A record

[Pete Ehlke]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:32:48PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> 
> Different DNS client libraries, and different applications using those
> libraries, behave differently.  Some (indeed, most) DNS Client libraries have
> no caching, and each request from the application for query resolution results
> in a query datagram being sent to the proxy DNS server.  Some applications

Depends on your definition of "most". The win2k and win XP code caches
locally. In terms of deployed software, that means that most client
libraries do cache.