Willie Matthews wrote: > > > On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, >>>> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't >>>> make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). >>> The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are >>> high, so given that responsive load balancing and timely fail over are >>> good things, it does make sense. IIRC the F5 default is 20 seconds. Be >>> careful if you are going to break DNS, there may be consequences >>> you're not aware of. >>> >> I know that. Just experimenting things, because if I can cache it >> locally, it would be quicker for me. >> >>>> Also, it isn't able to save cached entries to file so that it can be >>>> restored on next boot. Any option? >>>> >>>> I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home wifi, >>>> not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night (only phone) >>>> and I have my router as secondary dns. >>> Can you re-phrase that? - its hard to understand what the problem is. >>> >> Persistence across multiple boots/reboots. >> >> I found pdnsd which can do that, trying that out now. >> > You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. I was > having this same problem with my ISP or DSL modem with built in router > taking a long time. I changed my DNS servers to Google DNS Servers > (8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8) and haven't had a problem. > > My setup is a little different but all in all I would really suggest you > try a DNS server outside of your ISP. >
I agree. My ISP is AT&T and I changed my DNS to Google's too. It is very fast compared to AT&T's servers. I have had AT&T's servers not respond for several seconds but Google's just seem to work. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
