Re: [hobbit] DNS resolution duration

["Josh Luthman" <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Just be certain we're on the same page, by local DNS we're referring to
pdnsd or bind9 being on the same box as the Hobbit daemon, correct?

On 2/12/08, Charles Goyard <charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com> wrote:
>
> 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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