Bypassing DNS?
Paul Lussier
p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Feb 23 14:08:01 EST 2006
Neil Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> writes:
> That slight hang would be the timeout of the DNS request.
Yeah, I know what it is, I need a work around for it :)
> I'm guessing it's about 2 seconds.
More like 15:
# time host foo
Nameserver not responding
foo.foo.com A record not found, try again
real 0m14.996s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
> If you want more immediate response, I would suggest running a
> local instance of BIND as a caching server. It can even just
> forward all requests to your primary DNS servers if you'd like.
snip
> Would that work?
Probably not. This is for an embedded system, for which the desire is
a little complexity as possible. Configuring a caching name server
would a significant layer of complexity for which our support people
are not qualified to deal with. Additionally, the configuration of
the caching server would be a royal pain to build into our
installation process.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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