Author: James Ashburner Date: To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] DNS cache on Netgear DG834G
Vic wrote: >> I've never really quite got "why" one would set up "one's own" DNS
>
> There are a couple of reasons, but the most compelling is that ISPs
> invariably skimp on their DNS provision. As a result, DNS queries are dog
> slow - so that means your browsing is slow as well. And if your ISP's DNS
> servers fall over[1], you've got no hope...
>
> Setting up your own DNS server is *easy*. Really, really easy. And the
> performance improvement it generates is well worth it, even if you never
> want to do anything more complex.
>
> Vic.
>
> [1] I used to be a Force9 customer. Their DNS servers were so flakey, I
> investigated setting up my own - that's how I found out how easy it was.
> From that point on, I could tell when their servers failed again -
> everyone else on the pipe was sat waiting for DNS results that would never
> come, so I had all the bandwidth to myself :-)
>
>
Do you have a recommended howto Vic? Or is this more a case of JFGI? :)
