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Re: Web page/DNS caching
Posted: Fri May 18, 2001 11:05 am
by dmsmed
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.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2001 9:21 pm
by SRF01
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
Posted: Fri May 18, 2001 9:28 pm
by Stef
Just run
BIND, the original and best DNS server and configure it to cache DNS addresses.
Then just use those IE registry tweaks.
Stef
Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 4:23 pm
by dmsmed
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?
Posted: Sun May 20, 2001 4:42 pm
by Stef
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
Posted: Sun May 27, 2001 4:34 pm
by dmsmed
Blind looked like it was pretty involved or am I mistaken?