Re: Web page/DNS caching

dmsmed · Post by **dmsmed** » Fri May 18, 2001 11:05 am

Is there anyone out there who has proxy software they would recomend? I'm just looking to set up a proxy which will cache web pages and DNS addresses. I'm not interested in filtering.

Thank you.

SRF01 · Post by **SRF01** » Fri May 18, 2001 9:21 pm

Try www.analogx.com they have a pretty good proxy that's free and I'm not positive but I think it will do what your asking.

SRF

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Fri May 18, 2001 9:28 pm

Just run BIND, the original and best DNS server and configure it to cache DNS addresses.

Then just use those IE registry tweaks.

Stef

dmsmed · Post by **dmsmed** » Sun May 20, 2001 4:23 pm

Thanks, I'm hoping this will really speed up my surfing. It's not that I'm so impatient, I just like to cover a lot of ground and it seems like such a waste to have a high speed connection and then have to stand in line to get a DNS resolved.

I don't know if there is any truth to it but I heard that each time I click on a link in a given web page I have to wait to have the DNS resolved as well. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sun May 20, 2001 4:42 pm

Yeah, thats true. Resolving DNS queries causes a lot of upstream traffic.

When you set up BIND as a caching-only name server it contructs a local cache of DNS records.

Initially when you resolve a hostname, BIND will query your ISP's nameserver and find the result. After that it stores that information in a cache. From there all DNS queries to the same host will be handle from BIND's cache.

This reduces upstream traffic (since most queries will be awnsered from the localhost) and increase transfer efficientcy.

Stef

dmsmed · Post by **dmsmed** » Sun May 27, 2001 4:34 pm

Blind looked like it was pretty involved or am I mistaken?