[Sussex] Test of smtp and query about DNS resolution
Tony Austin
tony at gigaday.com
Mon Nov 17 20:28:45 UTC 2003
> Mozilla seems to be taking a while to resolve hostnames, am I right in
> thinking that if I put two DNS servers into /etc/resolv.conf this will
> speed things up even though I'm using DHCP?
>
That's not the way I understand it. You can put extra DNS servers in
/etc/resolv.conf in case the first one doesn't respond in a timely manner,
so two could make it seem faster but probably only if the first one was
very slow.
I found that using my broadband router as a DNS caching server was
unreliable and hterefore I let my ISP's servers do the hard work.
However, in theory a local DNS cache should work faster.
DHCP doesn't have anything to do with it - it just dishes out the IP
addresses.
> TIA,
>
> Matt
Regards.
Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com
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