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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: John Strung on May 10, '05 08:03:46PM

I had done something similar with an earlier version of OS X, but one of the updates broke it, so I was pleased to find this hint. It has made a tremendous improvement for me. Before following this hint, I was have problems with any browser pausing for 1 to 3 seconds while the status bar said "resolving..." or "looking up...". This was clearly a DNS problem and has been well documented in the Apple Discussion forums. None of the suggested solutions, i.e. manually adding the DNS IP's or turning off IPV6 worked.

Setting up the caching DNS as per the instructions here cleared the problem entirely. My browser now goes straight to every page with no "resolving..." hesitation at all.

Having said that, I did not find implementing the hint all that easy and at first, due to errors I made, the resolution problem actually got worse. I suspect that is what happened with the posters who complained that this hint made matters worse.

In particular, I had a bit of trouble with the syntax of the named.conf file, but I found that the console log would report syntax errors on reboot and after a few tries I was able to get it right.

Incidentally, I am behind a router (DLink 614+) and had the slow resolution problem nonetheless.



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