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Speed internet browsing via a local domain name server
Authored by: pwbjmv on May 31, '05 02:36:42AM

Had to chime in here. Since updating to Tiger I've had the most horribly slow lookups (timeouts all the time). I went to a friends house with my 12" PBook who had the same cable provider I did (which was slow as hell in my house) and we compared sites. His wepages (on PC) would load instantly while I would wallow in DNS hell on Mac side... for some unknown reason. Tried the IPV6 fix.. nothing. Tired entering manual IPs instead of DHCP... nothing. Tried entering DNS servers manually... nothing. Applied this hack and.... POW... surfing at the same speed as my friend on his PC now. So... regardless of right or wrong, correct or not.. this "hack" has definitely helped me out in a HUGE way.

Really makes me wonder though what the hell is going on with Apple's DNS stuff.... this hack seems to work for some and ruin others connections... strange.



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