On Friday 29 September 2006 06:01, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:21, stephan beal wrote:
There's no need to set that up. Simply edit /etc/hosts and enter the IPs and hostnames there. That will elimintate the lookup times (or reduce them to a couple of microseconds).
Oh, come on Stephan... Presumably the guy wants to surf more than a few web sites. The hosts suggestion is not an answer.
i can always count on John Andersen to counter every post i send, simply out of principal. It's not the countering which bugs me, but the predictable condescension certainly does. The OP suggested that he has a handful of sites for which he has IPs:
If I try the DSL speed tests from the servers in San Francisco or Los Angeles,
"the servers" implies a small, known set. If that is indeed the case, the hosts file is an acceptable solution. Obviously it's not manageable for a large number of hosts, nor for hosts which get served from a pool (e.g., google.com). -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts