I use Verizon FIOS and it has particularly slow dns name resolution.
The time it takes for MANY of the web pages I visit to load is dominated by name lookups.
To solve the problem I installed bind on my local machine.
A really nifty version of bind can be found at http://cutedgesystems.com/software/DNSEnablerForLeopard/
After installing DNSEnabler and running it as a caching name server, web page loads are MUCH snappier!
Note: Do not configure it to use your old crappy Verizon dns servers as a forwarder, just let it work from root hints.
This is probably the best $15 I have ever spent.
-bob
The time it takes for MANY of the web pages I visit to load is dominated by name lookups.
To solve the problem I installed bind on my local machine.
A really nifty version of bind can be found at http://cutedgesystems.com/software/DNSEnablerForLeopard/
After installing DNSEnabler and running it as a caching name server, web page loads are MUCH snappier!
Note: Do not configure it to use your old crappy Verizon dns servers as a forwarder, just let it work from root hints.
This is probably the best $15 I have ever spent.
-bob