[PROXYPER] proxies down or what?

[Roman Trunov]

waldo kitty wrote:

> almost sounds like a program logic flaw... kinda like in netscape...
> once you look up a site, netscape also retains the same ip number... on
> OS/2, windows, and *nix platforms... one would think that if it were the
> OS doing it, that one would have to actually reboot the whole machine...


Not sure about Netscape, but in case of personal proxy IP address is 
remembered by OS. But: cache is kept "per application" state - when you 
terminate the proxy, his cache is gone. Also, size of cache is 
relatively small - about 10 entries. If program constantly looking for 
different hosts, cache will expire soon and everything is Ok. But proxy 
always looking for single "us.v27.distributed.net" - and always gets 
cached answer. (Note: this address contains full list of IPs, buf pproxy 
can use only first one...)

I patched IP stack on my computer do disable DNS caching at all, but I 
do not think this is a good solution for everyone...

Roman



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