On 4/29/06, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 28 April 2006 15:07, Dinesh Shah wrote:
> Use the caching only name server on your computer. No need for
> external DNS servers. Use Bind / Named service.
Harshal, do setup Bind / Named service. At this point you have two
options, use an external DNS server like http://open-rsc.org or setup
Bind / Named to query directly the root servers. The latter may work
out to be a bit slower.
How about using both? List the default MTNL nameserver in resolv.conf
followed by the local one. You can set the timeout and no. of attempts
in resolv.conf with:
-x-
options timeout:<m> attempts:<n>
-x-
I have no idea what would be optimal values for these parameters. The
defaults according to resolv.h (RES_TIMEOUT=5 (seconds) and
RES_DFLRETRY=2) are too conservative by broadband connectivity
standards. Perhaps they were designed for dial-up users.
-
farazs
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