[SWLUG] Broadband

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Jan 22 09:30:56 2007, Huw Lynes wrote:
> I'm now in a flat that's only serviced by NTL. The bacndwidth 
> (10Mb/s)
> is great but they tend to over-subscribe their DNS servers, so 
> sometimes
> the connection will go like treacle.

I've always run my own DNS server - a habit from dialup-days, when 
running a DNS server meant a significantly faster connection for 
Linux boxes.

Most distributions either include a caching nameserver config in the 
nameserver packages, or else make it a seperate package. For Ubuntu 
users, just install bind9, for RedHat-like users, I think 
caching-nameserver will do the trick.

You can fiddle a bit and set up bind so it'll try NTL's servers 
before falling back to using the root servers directly if you like.

Dave.
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