Re: [Sheflug] Slackware8.0

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "russ" == russ  <rush> writes:

    russ> i run suse 7.2 with squid and sendmail over a modem speed is
    russ> or seems to be no quicker than a local cached page but makes
    russ> a little more secure.running name server is a lot quicker at
    russ> resolving the address and this seems to be worth the effort

I forgot about that - I run a caching DNS server locally - djbdns, see
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

DNS lookups are noticably quicker, hence hitting websites is that much
faster.

Cheers.

Baz.

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