Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, J Sloan wrote: > >> I find that having a local unix-based dns server is often orders of >> magnitude faster than relying on an upstream isp for dns resolution. > > Joe, > > I don't know that the effort to set up and maintain djbdns is worth any > speed increase. I've no basis for comparison.
Dunno about djbdbs - last I checked it was rather long in the tooth - but using the standard bind9, out of the box, as shipped by linux vendors and used as a caching dns server is a very cheap and easy speedup. Joe
