On 07/01/2010 11:45 AM, JD wrote:
On 07/01/2010 11:38 AM, Jurek Bajor wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 10:42 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Unfortunately, enabling or disabling IPV6 doesn't seem to have
>> much to do with the library doing V6 DNS lookups. I could
>> swear there was something added to nsswitch.conf or resolv.conf
>> that you could set to disable v6 dns requests, but I can't
>> remember what it was called.
>>
>> I run bind as a caching nameserver, forwarding lookups to my
>> ISP's server and set the -4 option on the command line to
>> make it stick to ipv4 and all my DNS lookup problems vanished.
>>> bind is too complex to run and maintain.
>>> Really, it is a huge overkill for what I need.
>>> I hope nscd authors will fix it soon so it does not
>>> purge it's cache every few seconds. I check'ed it's
>>> config file and the
>>> restart-interval 3600
>>> seems reasonable.
> Hi,
> I think that the default "restart-interval 3600", that is 3600
> secs = 1hr,
> is a low/impractical value. I mean you want to keep your cache for
> much longer,
> perhaps a week or more ... It is why one wanted it in the first place.
>
> Btw, there is a very good alternative (to BIND, etc) for DNS caching,
> namely
> dnsmasq package. It is simpler, easier on resources.
> I switched from bind to it and it serves me well.
> It is part of F13, used in other distros (Slackware, etc).
>> yum info dnsmasq
> Jurek
I had used dnsmasq, but it also suffered from the same problem I am
having with nscd.
I will try to set the interval to a longer time and see if that helps.
Cheers,
JD
Well, I have found that setting the interval to a longer time does
indeed help a lot!
However, the behavior of Firefox in resolving URL's is still strange!
If I click on a link, firefox spends almost a full minute to resolve the
url,
so while it is waiting (spinning), I use the gnome terminal to
nslookup
whatever-domain-it-was.com
and it resolves it in less than a second. I look at firefox, and it is
still trying to resolve!!
Firefox seems to use some other way to resolve the url's domain - the
painfully slow way!!
Firefox has no config means of telling it how to resolve - so I'm at a
loss as to it's behavior.
JD