Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I just use bind - setup to lookup from my ISP's nameservers and cache only. The main reason for this was my ISP's ones are very slow (sometime 0.5 s to resolve!) - turning on the cache made an enormous difference to the perceived performance. Cheers Mark Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm fed

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:01:33 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > I use dnsmasq, can be used as a LAN cache too (by simply allowing > > requests from a given interface). Took me about 30 minutes to > > configure. I asked dhcp to save to resolv.conf.2 and made resolv.conf > > to request from localhost.

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread kashani
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! === On Wednesday 09 April 2008, you wrote: === ... Does not seem to matter here much, since I suspend, not turn off. But anyway, most DNS names should be cached only few hours, half a day or so (well, there are some that have week long timeouts, but not many).

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Ralf Stephan
vorner wrote > I use dnsmasq, can be used as a LAN cache too (by simply allowing > requests from a given interface). Took me about 30 minutes to configure. > I asked dhcp to save to resolv.conf.2 and made resolv.conf to request > from localhost. OK this works fine, thanks. However, udhcpd cannt b

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread AG
Ralf Stephan ha scritto: Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? Regards, ralf what about dnscache of djbdns tools? took 2 minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Wednesday 09 April 2008, you wrote: === ... > > Does not seem to matter here much, since I suspend, not turn off. But > anyway, most DNS names should be cached only few hours, half a day or > so (well, there are some that have week long timeouts, but not many). Not sure I have n

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? I'm using the DNS of my router (D-Link DSL-500G). Works

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:45:18PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > > > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > > > or caching DNS

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: === > Hello > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > > or caching D

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:13:40 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? net-dns/dnsmasq -- Neil Bothwick Deja

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? I use dnsmasq, can be used as

[gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Ralf Stephan
Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list