Configuring an older server for speed...

[Kurt Buff]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>>> Steve
>>
>> It's been suggested off-list that I put up a caching DNS server. I'm
>> in the process of doing that. Initial page load delay, however, is a
>> new phenomenon, cropping up after our move from the T1 to the DS3, so
>> I was putting it down to increased use of cache - I'm certainly
>> willing to be schooled on that, though. We'll see what happens with a
>> caching DNS server.
>
> it's strange at least you haven't it already for a long time. no matter you
> use squid or not. it takes 5 minutes to set up, and saves a bit of bandwidth
> and a lot of time on resolving hostnames

I just looked at my configuration - looks like I had it going at one
point, but disabled it, and I can't remember why. This may be the
issue.

Kurt