On 2014-07-16 08:43, Brian Caouette wrote:
I have not tried ISP's dns as I've found Googles to be faster. I can try that test tonight when I get home though to rule out the possibility.
Be aware that using non-local DNS can end up with a suboptimal CDN routing situation as you get routed to the CDN nearest your chosen DNS servers rather than your actual local network.
These might well be appropriately placed, but they might not, depending on where Google's DNS resolution happens for the node that you hit.
In my opinion, running your own DNS is a better solution, if you're technically capable. On pfSense, this is often as simple as installing unbound and using it as a full resolver instead of DNS Forwarding/dnsmasq.
As for #2 I understand I just find it odd the prior install although poor hit rate still produce results were the current install is at 0 after a week. Our traffic hasn't changed we still surf the same sites. The kids are typically on facebook, youtube, and game sites and the wife on school and work as I am.
Between sites moving everything to HTTPS and the amount of dynamic content, hit rates are typically very low these days. Even static resources are often served over HTTPS (SPDY removing the last major reason to not use HTTPS for such things)
Making it "worse" (but not really) is the way a lot of static content is called, embedding version numbers into JS/CSS/etc file names and using cache control headers to encourage clients to cache these resources for weeks, allowing browsers to efficiently cache resources that used to be served out of local proxy servers.
Still, I'd expect a rate greater than absolute 0, but it takes a large number of users to get any real value out of a proxy level cache these days.
Or at least that was my experience when our office was stuck on a 3Mb pipe instead of our usual dual 100Mb for a few months.
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