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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: Anonymous on May 04, '05 04:34:28PM

Indeed.

It's often good advice to run a local caching resolver, but folks with simple networks (i.e., one or two boxes connected to a router, or one machine connected directly to the modem [of whatever kind]) will not necessarily see any drastic change in web browsing even with a local nameserver running on their clients.

For example, most Mozilla based browsers _already_ cache lookups, as does every Java app (that uses the network.) I don't know if Safari does or not, but it seems likely.

This is as true for Macs as it is other types of workstations. Wintel boxes are not naturally better at this.

If you have a real internal network (i.e., a bunch of boxes NATted behind a firewall, with some given static IPs and others dynamic, all on an actual domain) you are certainly advised to have a primary nameserver that caches lookups it gets from the outside world.

However, people who just "plug 'n play" to their provider with only a few little grey or blue boxes between them and the internet will not necessarily find this hint all that helpful.



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