On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:37:56PM -0800, Robert Munro wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:59 -0800 Galen Seitz wrote: >> > <snip> >> > >> > "Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers >> > available for your computer to use. <snip> >> > >> > http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ >> >> I was curious so I tried namebench. It's great! > > This is entertaining and informative.
Using the big, public namservers can have unwanted effects on traffic from CDNs, such as Akamai, etc. Since many of these CDNs source their traffic from caches "proximate" to the DNS server used to resolve the hostnames, using a nameserver not proximate to the actual downloader can be sub-optimal. Google has provided a proposal (edns-client-subnet) for resolving this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-00 The namebench tool is pretty neat! -- Dan Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
