MSFN's Unattended Windows : Disable Caching of Failed DNS Lookups

Disable Caching of Failed DNS Lookups

Lowers the DNS cache timeout for positive responses from 86,400 seconds (1 day) to 43,200 seconds (12 hours) and disables the caching of failed DNS lookups

» Example Registry Tweak

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000a8c0
"MaxNegativeCacheTtl"=dword:00000000

;Benefit: Lowers the DNS cache timeout for positive responses from 86,400 seconds (1 day) to 
;43,200 seconds (12 hours) and disables the caching of failed DNS lookups

Submitted by Dumpy Dooby.
Last updated 2006-04-21 09:29:00 by Dumpy Dooby