DNS Cache 1.5 released
13. Juli 2009
comments feedToday the latest version 1.5 of my Firefox plugin "DNS Cache" finally went public. Apart from Firefox 3.5 compatibility the following things have changed:
- Explicitly flush DNS cache when deactivating
- Toolbar Icon now has a context menu (right click): "Enable / Disable DNS Cache" and new:
- "Flush DNS Cache": Flushes the DNS Cache no matter if the cache is disabled or not
- Toolbar Icon now has to be double clicked in order to change the dns cache state
You can get the Firefox addon at the Firefox Add-ons page. If you've already installed it from there you should get the update automatically.
If you should experience any problems, please let me know!
3 comments
Dominik Jungowski
09.09.2009, 14:30 o'clock
That's a good question and a good idea. I'm unsure though if it will work at all, because that would mean that Firefox would have its own DNS Lookup routine.
Dave Lozier
27.11.2009, 17:28 o'clock
I think it already does that though? That is, it looks at DNS cache prior to doing an actual DNS lookup. So if we were able to to insert entries into DNS cache Firefox would then use those first?
I've also added/set network.dnsCacheEntries=1000 and network.dnsCacheExpiration=3600 in my about:config settings. Firefox has a default of 1 minute for caching a max of 20 entries. This changes that to 1 hour and 1000 entries. Being able to add entries that are never removed until done so manually would be great but one can always lengthen the cache times.
Cheers,
~Dave
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Dave Lozier
08.09.2009, 17:54 o'clock
I haven't used this extension but I am wondering how difficult it would be to modify it to allow for DNS cache editing. That is, rather than edit my /etc/hosts file to preview a development site I could simply make an entry to Firefox directly.
There is another DNS related extension that is similar to what I'm looking for but it is not exactly what I want.
Cheers,
~Dave