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Authored by: danlip on Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 1:34PM PST

Yes, probably all browsers, and any app that looks up a IP address,
will leave a record here. It seems to be Apple's version of a DNS cache.
I flushed the cache and just using "ping" and it created an entry.

For Tiger I think the command is "lookupd", see the link to the previous hint that robg added.

Clean up site tracks left behind after private surfing
Authored by: hamarkus on Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 2:45PM PST

I googled around a bit and the best I could find was this:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-53261.html
(where they agreed not to know of a method to see the cache)