nscd and DNS cache

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/18/2012 03:47 PM, JD wrote:
> I am indeed pointing my resolv.conf to the 2 google
> nameservers.
> You're probably right about our home network.
> I think the router has a very low bandwidth (hardware wise),
> probably because it doubles up as the decoder for the TV
> contents being viewed on 2 to 3 different TV's in the  house.
> TV signals come directly to the router on the coax, and then
> are sent back on the coax to the 3 TV sets.
> We're stuck with what we have. 

Of course you can always use a tool such as dig to see what kind of response times
you are getting.

for example....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.ibm.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2-RedHat-9.8.2-1.fc16 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.ibm.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13263
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ibm.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ibm.com.            452     IN      CNAME   www.ibm.com.cs186.net.
www.ibm.com.cs186.net.  34      IN      A       129.42.60.216

;; Query time: 21 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri May 18 16:17:54 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 80

Shows the query took 21 milliseconds

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