[ale] /etc/hosts and caching

[leam hall]

yeah, it took me a sec to figure out why you did that, but it makes sense.
Your example shows that for that purpose /etc/hosts file changes are
updated immediately. With "immediate" being defined as sub 1 second.

I would assume there are edge cases where nscd causes issues. Not sure what
they are but with the wide spread usage of Linux there are probably some
places.

Leam

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> What is important to note about that example is that ping, like most
> applications that do network lookups, will only do the lookup once at the
> beginning. For that reason my example required that I put single ping calls
> in a loop
>
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