On Friday 29 October 2004 13:36, Kh Linux wrote:
Thank you again Paul.
> Why are you forwarding DNS queries to your ISP's nameservers rather than
> having your bind look them up itself? I find that running my own
nameserver
> works much better than forwarding all queries to my ISP.
That is a very good question. I thought, my ISP server would handle queries
better and more up to date in terms of root name servers information.
Maybe, I was wrong.
Well, i'll take your suggestion now to switch to my own DNS server. But one
more thing, is there a major bug in the BIND version that comes with RedHat
9?
I noticed that, we cannot stop it with 'service named stop'; I had to do
'killall named'.
Thank you very much. How about Squid? Any suggestions on its default
options tweak?
Regards,
Vidol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul(a)city-fan.org>
I had the same problem, I configured one machine as a cache nameserver, and
the other machines uses it as the nameserver. Internet surfing is fast now. I
found out that resolving names using ISP DNS takes a long time and that it
times out a lot and squid was not the problem. Try to use tcpdump to see what
is happening.
Rehards
Livhu