From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SVi4l-0000Du-Pa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 11:44:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF9E2E0AE3; Sat, 19 May 2012 11:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7153AE06F7 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 11:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhp26 with SMTP id 26so3770847yhp.40 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:42:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Nhm31KSJc3OnEOlv2L98BasEssSE6ZAmYvMQGFycwWo=; b=X8yqQ6QUlXrTHnJg8e3dHZqvIVtoqxZKkPYLqNf4uwp314c3Am1JyjrSN3E1Xwhr8r aGVhFYj4rgb7wdgQUPgbYgoteNjzdx1293r1Av9aSz22iiYYsuA67XxeuDYed34aIScy +odz69fDHODbQn8YS4g28ot12/N/5HQ7ZzkfmxjmnjIe8+KxDkH3yp4Izq5/dhHMUNeW eqhZ20JBrCJpKM5bKq4e7+rGY+Dd8L0H3M3SvbcXrgpJFcfJk3RAeh+SGXqN2j9KxRae rk1yP+RaG8JD+piQT1d7X5F2ezkKHutXp6QkP8FVxhHpGEQDViWsrpjynxzJgNYiBEBL Rejg== Received: by 10.101.80.16 with SMTP id h16mr2202942anl.37.1337427750949; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-107-250.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.107.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p19sm407625anl.9.2012.05.19.04.42.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 May 2012 04:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FB78723.80203@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 06:42:27 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120510 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server? References: <4FB78578.8070400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB78578.8070400@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7b8feeb8-f9ec-4727-8f81-09db679fb9d4 X-Archives-Hash: 25df29e9f016251921bed904e22f7c93 Willie Matthews wrote: > > > On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >>>> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, >>>> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't >>>> make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). >>> The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are >>> high, so given that responsive load balancing and timely fail over are >>> good things, it does make sense. IIRC the F5 default is 20 seconds. Be >>> careful if you are going to break DNS, there may be consequences >>> you're not aware of. >>> >> I know that. Just experimenting things, because if I can cache it >> locally, it would be quicker for me. >> >>>> Also, it isn't able to save cached entries to file so that it can be >>>> restored on next boot. Any option? >>>> >>>> I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home wifi, >>>> not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night (only phone) >>>> and I have my router as secondary dns. >>> Can you re-phrase that? - its hard to understand what the problem is. >>> >> Persistence across multiple boots/reboots. >> >> I found pdnsd which can do that, trying that out now. >> > You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. I was > having this same problem with my ISP or DSL modem with built in router > taking a long time. I changed my DNS servers to Google DNS Servers > (8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8) and haven't had a problem. > > My setup is a little different but all in all I would really suggest you > try a DNS server outside of your ISP. > I agree. My ISP is AT&T and I changed my DNS to Google's too. It is very fast compared to AT&T's servers. I have had AT&T's servers not respond for several seconds but Google's just seem to work. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"