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"Fairly simple to set up BIND" - well yes, for someone with access to the local gateway and the ability to install a caching DNS resolver, this is a good option
by Piskvorrr 14y ago
"Fairly simple to set up BIND" - well yes, for someone with access to the local gateway and the ability to install a caching DNS resolver, this is a good option.
Unfortunately, most crappy DNS servers are with residential ISPs - and most residential users don't run anything near an usable distro on their gateways. For a user who's just competent enough to change the DNS settings, the "slow CDN access" versus "spotty DNS" tradeoff will be heavily weighted towards the first option.
- piffey 14y agoHow many home users will even notice the few second difference and think there's anything they can do about it though?
- Piskvorrr 14y agoGood point. The ones likely to notice would be the ones capable of setting up a local caching DNS server (that is to say, the HN crowd).
- icebraining 14y agoWhy not just install the DNS resolver on the client machine? Sure, you'd miss out on the shared cache, but I doubt it'd make much of a difference.
- sanxiyn 14y agoThis is what I do. Caching DNS resolver needs no configuration whatsoever. It is literally "apt-get install pdns-recursor" and edit /etc/resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1.
- Macha 14y agoAnd on Windows? Or a Ubuntu user who only knows how to use the GUI? Or OS X?
- Dylan16807 14y agoI don't know about windows but it's pretty easy to install a single program and either edit a text file or go into network settings with a gui.
- sanxiyn 14y agoWhat I wrote is actually possible to do on Ubuntu without ever opening a terminal.
- Piskvorrr 14y agoNot to mention that the NetworkManager version shipping with 12.04 does this by default.