Re: [hobbit] DNS resolution duration

[Charles Goyard <charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com>]

Hi,

Josh Luthman wrote :
> 
> Is there any way to set the DNS resolution timeout to something
> smaller?  Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and
> having it hold cache locally?  I have had two instances where Hobbit
> failed to resolve DNS for a completely unknown reason, even while the
> DNS test on the two hosts stay green!

I use pdnsd, it greatly improves response time, especially for http
checks (I use a older, libcurl-based version of bbtest-net for http).

Some other users also use a local DNS cache with improvements.

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