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DNS resolution duration

list Joe Sloan
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:41:05 -0800
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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