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Operating Systems Solaris ARP Cache Post 302124398 by earlysame55 on Saturday 30th of June 2007 12:24:48 PM
Old 06-30-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter
You are talking apples and oranges.

The ARP cache translates IP address to MAC addresses (eg ethernet node addresses) and only refers to the same subnet/network segment.

DNS does name resolving, translating a name to an IP address.

DNS knows nothing about MAC addresses.
Hi porter,

Thanks for the reply. When a name lookup has been done and initial connectivity is established dosn't it be there in the cache ?
 

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Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache(3pm)

NAME
Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache -- extends Cache::SizeAwareMemoryCache DESCRIPTION
The SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache class adds the ability to dynamically limit the size (in bytes) of a shared memory based cache. This class also implements the SizeAwareCache interface, providing the 'max_size' option and the 'limit_size( $size )' method. SYNOPSIS
use Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache; my $cache = new Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache( { 'namespace' => 'MyNamespace', 'default_expires_in' => 600, 'max_size' => 10000 } ); METHODS
See Cache::Cache and Cache::SizeAwareCache for the API documentation. OPTIONS
See Cache::Cache and Cache::SizeAwareCache for the standard options. PROPERTIES
See Cache::Cache and Cache::SizeAwareCache for the default properties. SEE ALSO
Cache::Cache, Cache::SizeAwareCache, Cache::SharedMemoryCache AUTHOR
Original author: DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@unto.net> Last author: $Author: dclinton $ Copyright (C) 2001-2003 DeWitt Clinton perl v5.12.4 2009-03-01 Cache::SizeAwareSharedMemoryCache(3pm)
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