Quoting Richard Harke ([email protected]): > That leaves the question: why access DNS at all for a application launch?
Again, what application, for example? And by what means do you know that that application is doing DNS lookups? You say "I've done some tracing", but I don't know what you've done to associate DNS lookups with particular non-network-oriented applicaitons. Once you know what application binary you're talking about, you can run it under strace to determine what system calls it's making. By the way, IMO, you really should consider running and using a local recursive DNS nameserver. Doing so improve performance a great deal over using your "router on your home network", which almost certainly is merely a forwarder. It'll also improve performance over using OpenDNS, along with not giving the operators of that service detailed information about your Internet activity, _and_ (unlike OpenDNS) it would actually implement DNS technical standards correctly (i.e., correctly answering "NXDOMAIN" when that's the truth). Possibly of related interest: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q3/005308.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q3/005309.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
