Comments on: OpenDNS – why did I not switch sooner? http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/ home of pia, max, frisco and tobias Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Serhii Laskavyi http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/comment-page-1/#comment-38824 Serhii Laskavyi Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:54:03 +0000 http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/#comment-38824 No, I don't save cached data to file nor do not change the TTL since my own http://laskavy.homeunix.net/ has very small TTL. No, I don’t save cached data to file nor do not change the TTL since my own http://laskavy.homeunix.net/ has very small TTL.

]]> By: tobias http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/comment-page-1/#comment-38822 tobias Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:19:41 +0000 http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/#comment-38822 Did you configure you local named to cache results from forwarders? Meaning: once the result from the forwarder is received, your bind instance should cache it (to a disk file as well) with a long, long TTL. Even if you restart bind, named will pick up the cached information from the cache-file and you should see improvements over time. That's essentially what OpenDNS does for you. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CachingNameserver has more information on this. Did you configure you local named to cache results from forwarders? Meaning: once the result from the forwarder is received, your bind instance should cache it (to a disk file as well) with a long, long TTL. Even if you restart bind, named will pick up the cached information from the cache-file and you should see improvements over time. That’s essentially what OpenDNS does for you.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CachingNameserver has more information on this.

]]> By: Serhii Laskavyi http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/comment-page-1/#comment-38821 Serhii Laskavyi Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:09:37 +0000 http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/#comment-38821 Currently my DNS is so slow, that http://www.google.com/ resolves from the third try. With bind, 3, 4 and all next attempts are successful :) Currently my DNS is so slow, that http://www.google.com/ resolves from the third try. With bind, 3, 4 and all next attempts are successful :)

]]> By: tobias http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/comment-page-1/#comment-38820 tobias Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:45:03 +0000 http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/#comment-38820 Interesting - perhaps you started with a faster DNS connection to begin with? I can really see improvement in "initial returns" from the moment I typed in a URL until the first packets arrive. That seems to largely stem from the fact that OpenDNS has a lot of sites I hit already cached. Cheers - Tobias Interesting – perhaps you started with a faster DNS connection to begin with? I can really see improvement in “initial returns” from the moment I typed in a URL until the first packets arrive. That seems to largely stem from the fact that OpenDNS has a lot of sites I hit already cached.

Cheers – Tobias

]]> By: Serhii Laskavyi http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/comment-page-1/#comment-38818 Serhii Laskavyi Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:11:36 +0000 http://www.kahunaburger.com/2008/03/29/opendns-why-did-i-not-switch-sooner/#comment-38818 I don't see the difference with BIND :) I don’t see the difference with BIND :)

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