Bob Goodwin wrote: > Before and after for "host -v google.com" > > Received 252 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 917 ms > Received 252 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 151 ms Actually, the 100% sure way to know that your caching name server is working is to run something like "tcpdump" or "ethereal" and capture only packets for port 53. When you do a "host" for a known non-cached host you'll see the query going out. The second time you do the "host" you should not see a query going out. Ed
