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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
You should NOT do this if your Internet connection goes through any sort of local broadband router as this will be providing a local DNS service for you anyway.
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
How do you go about checking to see if you have a local broadband router? I'm interested in doing whatever i can to speed up my experience, but i don't want to cause other issues in the process :)
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Ok, i'm an idiot...nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to what i was reading. I do have a local router. However, its settings only refer to Dynamic DNS (DDNS). There are no settings for regular DNS. Does this mean the router doesn't have this functionality or is it just not adjustable/accessible?
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
most soho boradband routers do have dns service built in, and propagate themself as the local dns server in the dhcp lease..
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Best way to see if your local router does DNS is to do a verbose name query: from a terminal window, type:
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
This hint caches the DNS queries. That's what optimizes the lookup. Is that correct?
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
The simplest solution may be to just check that the 'optional' DNS server names box in the Network System Preferences is BLANK!
Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
This hint is working well for me, but as originally suggested it was not automatically starting when the computer started up. Using other StartupItems as examples, I think the /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND script has to look like this to actually start the service as the machine boots up; |
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