On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 at 17:06 GMT -0500 (15/07/2002 5:06 where you think I live) "Jonathan Angliss"=[JA] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
>> Even on Cox Cablevision's broadband, sometimes the DNS response is >> slow. And using a modem, DNS is immensely better if one runs a >> caching-only nameserver on the local machine. > I can understand using a caching-only DNS server, saves repeatitive lookups, > hence time... but you still have to do the initial lookup. You may want to look > into trying other DNS servers if your ISP is slow at responding. Which I guess > is what you're doing now ;) I agree, try your neighbor ISP DNS server might help :-) I can understand the need of DNS cache for Mercury users, because Mercury doesn't have his own cache as MDaemon or most Linux MTA have. But IMHO DNS Forwader more appropriate especially for ADSL/Cable users, querying to root DNS takes a lot of times sometimes. -- Best regards, - Syafril - mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flying with The Bat! 1.61 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
