Re: slow to open a web page, last too long to 'looking up ...'
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Hi,
I experienced a slow web page openning. When I try to open a web page eg
http://home.aapt.com.au, It starts 'looking up home.aapt.com.au
<http://home.aapt.com.au>;, this lasts more than 40 seconds then to start
'transfer from home.aapt.com.au <http://home.aapt.com.au>;. VERY SLOW.
However, if I got the ip adddress of this, eg
http://203.63.89.59 <http://203.63.89.59>
the 'looking up' lasts less than 2 seconds and start trasfer ...
I guess it may relate to the ISP dns, apart from the ISP side, what else
I can improve this?
You can run your own cacheing DNS server very easily with Fedora.
Just install bind
# yum install bind caching-nameserver
# service named start
# chkconfig named on
Edit /etc/resolv.conf to say to use your own DNS
nameserver 127.0.0.1
...and that's it, you can test with ping
ping home.aapt.com.au
If your normal DNS server is unreliable, this is a great and fast fix.
-Andy