Thank you Livhu. I'm now trying as you and Paul suggested. I'll come back to you again. We have a bunch of about 100 users here. Regards, Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Livhuwani Tshisikule" <livhu.tshisikule@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak? > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
