Tweaking the DNS Server

[Andy Pieters]

Hi
> Are you sure it's DNS delays? Test and see. It might just be users'
> unrealistic expectations. Even so you might help them a bit by using a
> Web proxy. Your Celeron should be more than capable of the job.

I believe it to be dns delays.

The users that stick to their m*#{[ explorer do not complain and further 
investigation leads me to suspect that browser does a per session caching 
(?!) of what it has resolved, connecting and displaying sites almost 
instantanously while good old FireFox stays at "Looking up xxx" for at least 
half a second (sometimes longer)

Querying the server directly by using nslookup (on Linux) produces the same .5 
to 2sec delay the users are complaining about for the first resolve of a 
given domain.  Subsequent resolves for the same domain are instantanous but 
this cache is very short timewise (10-30min)


With kind regards


Andy



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