Thank you again Paul. > Why are you forwarding DNS queries to your ISP's nameservers rather than > having your bind look them up itself? I find that running my own nameserver > works much better than forwarding all queries to my ISP. That is a very good question. I thought, my ISP server would handle queries better and more up to date in terms of root name servers information. Maybe, I was wrong. Well, i'll take your suggestion now to switch to my own DNS server. But one more thing, is there a major bug in the BIND version that comes with RedHat 9? I noticed that, we cannot stop it with 'service named stop'; I had to do 'killall named'. Thank you very much. How about Squid? Any suggestions on its default options tweak? Regards, Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak? > Kh Linux wrote: > > Dear all: > > > > I am installing Squid on RedHat 9 out of the Distro CDs on a Dell PowerEdge > > 1300 Server, Pentium III RAM 256MB. I've been trying it out for 1 week now > > with the default options. It seems very slow. > > > > Could someone guide me with some useful tips to tweak the default options of > > the /etc/squid/squid.conf file for better performance? > > > > Also, I installed BIND to act as the DNS server; but i configured it to > > forward queries to my ISP DNS. Could this be the major traffic block to my > > connection to ISP? > > > > Since I started to use Squid and BIND, my ISP notified me that, my 1Mbps > > leased-line connection has always been saturated. > > > > Could it be because of Squid or DNS forwarding or a virus? > > Look in the logs to see what's happening. > > /var/log/squid/access.log > > Turn on query logging for bind (rndc querylog) if it isn't already on, then > look in > > /var/log/messages > > Why are you forwarding DNS queries to your ISP's nameservers rather than > having your bind look them up itself? I find that running my own nameserver > works much better than forwarding all queries to my ISP. > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
