On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 22:46 -0500, Chad Bailey wrote: > 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.
If the idea is to speed up surfing, a local DNS server will help, but very minimal in the over all scheme of things. Since a DNS request is made once, and then your machine knows the IP from there. Something like Squid or other software that can proxy and cache the information can help. However most browsers tend to have a fairly decent amount of cache by default, but you can increase that if need be. Unless your looking to speed things up for several machines on a local area network. For a single machine, I am not sure a squid proxy will do much to speed things up, other than adding another layer. Either way a local DNS caching server/software will only speed up the initial request, the DNS lookup/query :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
