forwarded from Michael Brown [the science skeptic ;-)]
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At 01:44 PM 8/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> Vasile, both of these addresses work, however, I have found
>> that they do not work the "first" time - produce the usual
>> non-found error, but do work after hitting the "refresh"
>> button. Another Bill Gates' IE5 gotcha?
>
>Actually, it has to do with the way the DNS lookups work.  The client sends
>out the request and the replies don't start to flow in until after the
>client times out.  The next time a lookup occurs the information has been
>cached in a server somewhere closer and gets returned in time.  This is one
>of the extremely rare times that Bill isn't to blame for "unreliable"
>behavior.
>

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