britishtrident
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 09:09 PM |
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Treewalk on Xp home :-)
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]
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ecosse
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 10:52 PM |
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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
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 28/11/06 at 12:22 AM |
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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
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britishtrident
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| posted on 28/11/06 at 07:23 AM |
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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
rant over
[Edited on 28/11/06 by britishtrident]
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ecosse
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| posted on 28/11/06 at 08:50 AM |
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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
rant over
[Edited on 28/11/06 by britishtrident]
Like the rant , 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
And linux can suffer the same issue as windoze when resolving names if a non cached lookup is required 
Cheers
Alex
PS
No version of Windows comes with bind, servers use MS DNS which is different
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