On 9/28/06, Art Fore wrote:
Hi All
I am in Taiwan, and the internet service really sucks. I can do a speed test from my ISP, hinet.net, and get the 8 Mbps they say they are providing. If I try the DSL speed tests from the servers in San Francisco or Los Angeles, I get, if I am luck, 1 Mbps. I have noticed that most of the time is waiding while looking up the site. Got some IP addresses of those site, and enter them in the web browser, and it goes about 10 times or more faster. It appears most of the time is for DNS lookup.
Now my Question. Would setting up a caching DNS server help this situation and if so, does anyone have any guidance in doing this? I have checed out the DNS setup, etc. before, and find it very confusing, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Art
First try to disable the IPv6 DNS lookup. If your ISP does not provide it, this is the behaviour you will see. There was an article on novell.com how to do this. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.