DNS resolver
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Sometime around the spring of 1985, I mentioned to Paul Mockapetris
that our experience with his JEEVES DNS resolver had pointed out the
need for some kind of negative caching scheme. Paul suggested that
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... Late in 1987, I released the initial beta-test version of CHIVES, the
DNS resolver I'd written to replace Paul's JEEVES resolver. CHIVES
included a search path mechanism that was used pretty heavily at
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