>>>>> "T" == Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: T> What!?! A web browser doesn't query DNS servers, it asks your T> TCP/IP stack for such details, and *that* does the DNS queries. Umm, this is far from correct. Generally applications such as web browsers will call into the system resolver library, which will go through the full name resolution process which may involve DNS but can also involve checking the cache via nscd, looking in /etc/hosts, or doing an NIS or LDAP lookup. In Linux, glibc provides the system resolver library. However, this is not mandatory. There are other resolver libraries in existence. The nslookup program, for example, queries DNS directly as does dig and various other DNS debugging tools. It is quite possible for an application such as a web browser to do the same. I do not know if Firefox does so. - J<
