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FYI -- Squid caching web proxy comes with a basic dns_cache utility. Squid is fantastic enough on its own.. but the DNS cache makes a difference. You can tune the caching, and force "prefetching" of DNS and webpages via cron scripts and links/lynx. I haven't reinstalled it since I got aDSL (lazy), but DNS caching + www proxy made a huge difference when I was on 56K dialup (especially given how Netscape 4 did page refreshes!) -Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent Borg [mailto:kentborg at borg.org] > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:39 AM > To: discuss at blu.org > Subject: Re: ATTBI just changed DNS servers > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:17:47AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > I run my own. > > Me too, but 4.2.2.1 is so easy to remember that I think I will. For > example, one of the root servers moved recently so I changed that file > in my tinydns installation. My too-vclever-by-half moment was to > create an RCS directory there so I could keep track of my changes and > that broke it. I found it quickly, but had I not knowing another DNS > server could come in handy. 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.1. Now maybe I > will remember it. > > > It gives me < 1ms response time (assuming the address I want is > > cached, of course). > > Which for me it will frequently not be. Still, more reliable than > using my ISP's, even considering my self-induced outage last night. > > > -kb > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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