Re: netstat performance

2011-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 05 iul 11, 18:13:06, William Hopkins wrote: > > The primary reasons are 1) reliability separate from your ISP and 2) verified > correct results without NXDOMAIN spam and other such things. [...] > Please believe point 2 is based in verified and somewhat commonly-known fact, > and not pa

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Jul 2011 at 18:13:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > The primary reasons are 1) reliability separate from your ISP and 2) verified > correct results without NXDOMAIN spam and other such things. For 1, although > your ISPs routers may be up their DNS may go down or become incorrectly > co

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-05 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/05/11 at 11:18pm, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Jul 2011 at 22:09:38 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > [snip recursive explanation] > > It was a really good explanation, wasn't it? > > > > Thanks a lot for this explanation, DNS is still a bit like dark magic to > > me :) > > I suspect you ma

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Jul 2011 at 22:09:38 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [snip recursive explanation] It was a really good explanation, wasn't it? > > Thanks a lot for this explanation, DNS is still a bit like dark magic to > me :) I suspect you may be doing yourself an injustice. :) > My understanding

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-05 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/05/11 at 10:09pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 12:23:39, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > > > > f

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 iul 11, 12:23:39, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > > > for the local network + bind for authoritative. > > > > No

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > > for the local network + bind for authoritative. > > Not sure what "recursive" means [...] Recursive queries are what a

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > for the local network + bind for authoritative. Not sure what "recursive" means, but dnsmasq shines on your gateway, where it can provide DHCP too and make sure your local

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-02 Thread Erwan David
On 01/07/11 23:21, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/02/11 at 12:01am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: >>> On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: >>> For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) >>> >>> For an even better time (and to escape

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 00:01:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If caching is all you need then > > apt-get install dnsmasq I quite like unbound's DNSSEC aspect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 12:01am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > > > >apt-get install

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > >apt-get install unbound If caching is all you need then apt-get install

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 16:36:51 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Agreed, I was just replying to your monoculture comment.. running a local > recursive server is still a great idea (and thread contribution). Sorry if I > implied otherwise! I didn't take it that way. You made a fair technical point a

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/29/11 at 08:44pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:27:53 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable product. Unbound is > > for > > recursive-only, so you can't have your own zone. > > Within the context of the thread I thought it a go

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > Also, the Debian package name for ISC BIND is bind9. Good point, well taken. Oops... -- Glenn English -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:27:53 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable product. Unbound is for > recursive-only, so you can't have your own zone. Within the context of the thread I thought it a good fit and worth a mention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/29/11 at 08:08pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > >apt-get install unbound Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable p

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) apt-get install unbound :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:51 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/29/11 at 10:15am, ChadDavis wrote: >> Not a big deal, but just made me think. Surely the name resolution >> isn't that costly is it? > > Depends on latency and distance to your DNS server, how long it takes the DNS > server to perform

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/29/11 at 10:15am, ChadDavis wrote: > I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have > drastically different execution times: > > netstat > > netstat -n > > > When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, > but with the domain names and whatever you call

Re: netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:15:58 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have drastically > different execution times: > > netstat > > netstat -n > > > When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, but > with the domain names and what

netstat performance

2011-06-29 Thread ChadDavis
I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have drastically different execution times: netstat netstat -n When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, but with the domain names and whatever you call those logical names for the port numbers, such as 'www', it