If I was a developer of TSM I wouldn't bother myself with caching DNS
lookups. Probably TSM relies purely on operating system's TCP stack
(gethostbyname or socket). Of course manual says nothing and we have no
access to source code, so can only guess ;-)
If you experience some caching of old addresses better place to look ought
to be SOA record parameters.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Dan Foster <dsf AT GBLX DOT NET>
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        Subject:        dsmc and DNS hostname lookups


If I change the IP address of a DNS hostname, do I have to kill -9 the
dsmc
scheduler process to make it respawn and re-lookup the hostname's IP
address?

Or will it periodically do DNS lookups and will learn the new address on
its own without manual intervention?

No config file changes -- the hostname itself will stay the same; the IP
address for that record in DNS will change.

I haven't seen anything in the manual that talks about this point.

-Dan