Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Hi, > > I experienced a slow web page openning. When I try to open a web page eg > http://home.aapt.com.au, It starts 'looking up home.aapt.com.au > <http://home.aapt.com.au>, this lasts more than 40 seconds then to start > 'transfer from home.aapt.com.au <http://home.aapt.com.au>. VERY SLOW. > However, if I got the ip adddress of this, eg > http://203.63.89.59 <http://203.63.89.59> > the 'looking up' lasts less than 2 seconds and start trasfer ... > > I guess it may relate to the ISP dns, apart from the ISP side, what else > I can improve this? You can run your own cacheing DNS server very easily with Fedora. Just install bind # yum install bind caching-nameserver # service named start # chkconfig named on Edit /etc/resolv.conf to say to use your own DNS nameserver 127.0.0.1 ...and that's it, you can test with ping ping home.aapt.com.au If your normal DNS server is unreliable, this is a great and fast fix. -Andy
