[TriLUG] Name server

Kevin Otte nivex at nivex.net
Mon Feb 24 21:11:20 EST 2014


I'll second this. My experience with ISP provided nameservers has been 
fairly bad. I'd use a nameserver in house and set it to forward to 
something like OpenDNS or Google, or let it do the full recursion 
itself. I do the latter.

-- Kevin

On 02/24/2014 09:46 AM, John Broome wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Phil Smith <mazphil57 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I was getting annoyed with Century Link's nameserver taking 10 seconds to
>> resolve 'raleigh.craigslist.org' but rather than setting up unbound, a
>> quick workaround was to put a different ISP's nameserver first in
>> /etc/resolv.conf.  If anyone tries unbound, I'd like to hear if it seems to
>> speed things up.
>>
>
>
> Or use a different resolver?
>


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