I have been a big fan of Treewalk DNS (bind for windows) since used when I was on BT-yahoo who had somewhat err ureliable DNS servers at the time.
Tonight I loaded it on an Xp Home pc with 1gb ram, a fastish processor & disc and a decently quick ADSL connection --- the improvement in
performance was noticeable !. I tried it a few time clearing Firefox's cache each time, much faster than relying on my ISPs DNS servers alone.
http://treewalkdns.com/
[Edited on 27/11/06 by britishtrident]
Maybe a bit too techy for most, but ISP's DNS servers can sure be dire at times, so worth a look if you are getting slow resolution (or fancy
learning how DNS works 
)
Presumably it still relies on external DNS for initial resolution, but gains its advantage by local long lived caching?
An alternative method of increasing resolution speed is to find a close and fast public DNS server and point yourself at it.
Interesting option all the same 
Cheers
Alex
Another strapon to get billys code to work.
Open source the locost of OS systems.....Ubantu the quick/ easiest to learn.......
puppy linux runs off a stick try that with gates.....
In a world without frontiers who needs windows and gates
rant over
More an ISP networking problem Treewalk is a versions of Bind for windows, server versions of Windows ship with Bind but home & workstation
versions don't.
Because Linux relies on TCP/IP for local networking many versions come with Bind in the standard installation, Ubuntu is one that dosen't with
Ubuntu Bind has to be downloaded installed via Synaptic.
quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
Another strapon to get billys code to work.
Open source the locost of OS systems.....Ubantu the quick/ easiest to learn.......
puppy linux runs off a stick try that with gates.....
In a world without frontiers who needs windows and gates
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
More an ISP networking problem Treewalk is a versions of Bind for windows, server versions of Windows ship with Bind but home & workstation versions don't.
Because Linux relies on TCP/IP for local networking many versions come with Bind in the standard installation, Ubuntu is one that dosen't with Ubuntu Bind has to be downloaded installed via Synaptic.
quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
Another strapon to get billys code to work.
Open source the locost of OS systems.....Ubantu the quick/ easiest to learn.......
puppy linux runs off a stick try that with gates.....
In a world without frontiers who needs windows and gates
[Edited on 28/11/06 by britishtrident]
, also agree with it (most of it anyway, as without Bill and MS I'm not sure that computer use would be as widespread as it
is now ) and I like and use linux when I can, unfortunately my customers need me to know windows so I've little choice really, and besides its
failings generate my income 