In that case, I'd highly recommend using squid. It will enhance your speed immensely, without the drawbacks commonly associated with caching proxies etc. As far as DNS requests, I thought it also affected those but I'm unsure.
In an unrelated side-note, ironically I work for tech support for AT&T (formerly Bellsouth), so if you have any questions feel free to ask away I'd be glad to help in any way I can. If you have a business account with Bellsouth, you do get DNS hosting with your account and control over reverse dns (somewhat), but at this point those 2 things sound unrelated to what you're trying to accomplish. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Otto Gvert <[email protected]> wrote: I'm mainly wanting to speed up my surfing. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, use Bellsouth for ISP. O --- On Mon, 11/8/10, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chad Bailey <[email protected]> Subject: Re: DNS server recommendation To: "Otto Gvert" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 8:07 PM I think the operative thing here might be to ask a bit more probing questions. For instance, why do you want to set up this DNS server? I did read that you are looking for something simple and secure, but that is not a reason as to why you want it. If you are looking for speeding up your network, there are some other things that you may not even know about that might make you a very happy camper, such as squid. If you are looking for keeping out spyware and/or content filtering, I would suggest OpenDNS. If you are looking for hosting your own aname/cname/mx records etc, then I'd point you in the direction of bind or some alternative to bind (notably, MaraDNS). Since you advise you're looking for security, and specify a DNS "server", I would presume you are looking for something more like MaraDNS. That'd be my recommendation, but I couldn't really make a full recommendation without knowing exactly what it is you're wanting to accomplish. Also, might want to consider that some ISP's come with free basic DNS hosting. Finally, since this is a linux mailing list, I would imagine the platform you're wanting it for is linux... but it would still be great if we knew for sure. Hope this helps! On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Otto Gvert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looking for a recommendation for a dns server. Looked at several but > they got to me. > > > tia > O > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
