On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:38:56PM +1200, David Merriman wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm looking for a way to cache website addresses to speed up page > finding and loading. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on SuSE 10.3, with a > D-Link DSL-502T broadband modem and D-Link DI-524UP wireless router > (though I'm plugged directly into that, not wireless). > > At the moment, whenever I select a webpage from Firefox's bookmarks, or > type in a URL, it takes approximately 10 seconds before the IP address > is found, and the page starts loading. Firefox's status bar says > "Looking up Slashdot.org..." (or whatever) for that long, before the > page starts loading.
Try dnsmasq. It easily uses your ISP's nameservers. And just caches. Small and simple. Also it has the added advantage that you can just create domain names in /etc/hosts and have it serve them to your LAN. It's also got a DHCP server. You don't need to use that component if you've got a decent DHCP server already though. That said, it's strange that your DNS is that slow. It sounds terribly broken. There are a couple of free DNS resolvers you can try from anywhere. One is 4.2.2.2, and another is 208.67.222.222. Both of these are hosted in multiple places (in the US predominantly). And performance tends to be reasonably good. Although there's a short latency increase for using a DNS server in the US ... it should be nothing like 1 second let alone 10! Ben.
