From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When a site moves to a new IP number, it is necessary to exit Mozilla in order to access the site. Otherwise, the old IP number is used and if the web server there is still running, you get stale web pages or error messages. Mozilla should honor the expiration time specified by DNS and redo the lookup if the IP number is stale. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -q mozilla mozilla-1.0.1-2.7.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up two web servers on different IP addresses. 2.Make foo.bar.com point to IP #1 with 1 hour expiration. 3.Access foo.bar.com using Mozilla 4.Change foo.bar.com's IP number to IP #2, and wait an hour or two. 5.Reload page foo.bar.com, see the page from IP #1. 6.Exit from Mozilla, restart, access foo.bar.com, see page from IP #2. Actual Results: Mozilla caches DNS lookups forever. Expected Results: Mozilla should cache DNS lookups with expiration dates. Additional info: This has happened to me twice. It can be very mysterious, especially if you don't specify -n on tcpdump. Webmasters can't figure out what is wrong. It took me a while to recognize the problem the second time, but watching with tcpdump -n made it clear.
Actually, this is entirely up purpose. One possible attack vector for stealing someone's form information is to change the IP address in between DNS lookups. This is why the name -> address information is pinned down.