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...When you browse a web page a portion of the loading time is dedicated to name resolution while the rest is dedicated to the transfer of the web page contents. What Acrylic does is to reduce the time dedicated to name resolution for frequently visited addresses closest to zero possible. Furthermore Acrylic's sliding expiration caching mechanism and DNS silent updates are able to improve the browsing experience independently of the browser. With Acrylic you can also gracefully overcome downtimes of your DNS servers without disrupting your work, because in that case you will at least be able to connect to your favourite websites and to your email server.

This utility was born out of the fact that on a couple of occasions, through no fault of my own, I have had domain name records (DNS records) expire, and I needed a utility to give a rapid warning when this was either about to happen or had recently happened. This utility is run regularly as a background cron job and sends me an email to tell me the domains are still live.