[hobbit] DNS resolution duration

Sloan joe at tmsusa.com
Tue Feb 12 22:41:05 CET 2008


Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> Josh Luthman wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and having
>> it hold cache locally?  
>
> I do, and it works very well.  I'm using the caching-nameserver RPM
> from Red Hat, so choose the appropriate version for your OS and use
> it. You'll definitely see a reduction in DNS lookup times.
I'm surprised to hear that anyone *wouldn't* be running a local dns
server for any unix/linux box running services that require name
resolution. It's free, it's easy and speeds performance - a no brainer.

Joe



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