Re: [SLE] Caching DNS server in Suse 10.1

First of all, thanks to everyone who answered and gave input. I have not
ansered before because I upgraded the ASUS motherboard that I have been
having problems with to a MSI with Dual core 3800+ athlon dual core
processor. (I plan on running windows in a Xen virtual machine under
Suse. That is the next step.) Nice improvement, but that is besides the
point. I added the DNS server noted below as the primary name server in
the network card setup. It drastically helps the DNS wait problem I had.
Citibank online banking many times timed out before finding the server.
Now, it is just a few seconds.

No improvement in DSL tests as you would expect though. Right now, I am
getting about 400Kbps upload and download. Speed is very time sensitive.
Evening are 2 to 5 times slower than early in the morning.

Art

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 20:19 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:23, Art Fore wrote:

Now my Question. Would setting up a caching DNS server help this
situation and if so, does anyone have any guidance in doing this? I have
checed out the DNS setup, etc. before, and find it very confusing, so
any help would be greatly appreciated.

Art

Yeah, just install named
Its drop dead simple.

Note: You don't HAVE to use the local dns servers. You can set up
your dhcp server to NOT update resolv.conf and encode your own
dns servers in there. All you need is the IP of a good fast DNS
server somewhere that you can reach.

I frequently cheat and use whidbey.net's dns servers because they
are way faster than the ones my ISP supplies.

ns.whidbey.net 209.166.65.1 (Seattle).




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