On Friday 29 October 2004 13:36, Kh Linux wrote: > 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> I had the same problem, I configured one machine as a cache nameserver, and the other machines uses it as the nameserver. Internet surfing is fast now. I found out that resolving names using ISP DNS takes a long time and that it times out a lot and squid was not the problem. Try to use tcpdump to see what is happening. Rehards Livhu
