In the last episode (Jan 24), Larry Lowry said:
> Ok I changed my connection string to use the IP of the mySql box and
> added my workstation to the hosts file on the server. Same problem.
> The tests ran at the same slow pace.
>
> I am really curious, what was the logic of adding the workstation ip
> to the hosts file on the server?
If windows wasn't caching the DNS name for some reason and had to ask
your DNS server every time a connection was made, hardcoding the IP on
the client and adding is to the hosts file on the server would bypass
DNS lookups on both ends.
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