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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
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- Subject: Re: Negative caching
- Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Jan10123547@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 20:35:47 GMT
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- In-reply-to: smd@uunet.ca's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:09:47 GMT
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- [smd@uunet.ca wrote]
- >Negative caching has been implemented and used in the real world for
- >quite some time. One implementation can be found at
- >ftp.cs.toronto.edu in pub/utbind.tar.Z. The CHANGES.UT file in the
- >utbind package is a bit dated, but worth reading as it discusses the
- >implementation details of various things like negative caching and
- >error caching.
-
- yikes. negative cachine was in utbind, and yet nobody from ut answered
- my request for 4.9 alpha testers? let's hope that someone from ut (or
- some other interested party) takes the time to integrate negative caching
- into 4.9.1 after i get 4.9 out the door..
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- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
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