Hi, Saw your message in the list, Was wondering if you made any head-way with it? Did you manage to solve your issues? Did you find out what sort of tweaks were needed? On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:56, Kh Linux wrote: > 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 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 Neuromancer 18:06:11 up 8:14, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.52, 0.60
