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Willie Matthews wrote: |
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> On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, |
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>>>> which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't |
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>>>> make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s). |
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>>> The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are |
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>>> high, so given that responsive load balancing and timely fail over are |
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>>> good things, it does make sense. IIRC the F5 default is 20 seconds. Be |
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>>> careful if you are going to break DNS, there may be consequences |
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>>> you're not aware of. |
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>> I know that. Just experimenting things, because if I can cache it |
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>> locally, it would be quicker for me. |
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>>>> Also, it isn't able to save cached entries to file so that it can be |
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>>>> restored on next boot. Any option? |
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>>>> I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home wifi, |
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>>>> not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night (only phone) |
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>>>> and I have my router as secondary dns. |
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>>> Can you re-phrase that? - its hard to understand what the problem is. |
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>> Persistence across multiple boots/reboots. |
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>> I found pdnsd which can do that, trying that out now. |
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> You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. I was |
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> having this same problem with my ISP or DSL modem with built in router |
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> taking a long time. I changed my DNS servers to Google DNS Servers |
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> (8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8) and haven't had a problem. |
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> My setup is a little different but all in all I would really suggest you |
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> try a DNS server outside of your ISP. |
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I agree. My ISP is AT&T and I changed my DNS to Google's too. It is |
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very fast compared to AT&T's servers. I have had AT&T's servers not |
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respond for several seconds but Google's just seem to work. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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