Slow DNS (and host: connection timed out)

[Mel]

On Thursday 05 February 2009 22:55:56 David Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My ISP is using a WinGate DNS but resolving host names often takes a long
> time.  The problem is also present in Konqueror (3 & 4) and Firefox.
>
> An example:
> # time host google.co.za
> google.co.za has address 66.249.93.104
> google.co.za has address 72.14.207.104
> google.co.za has address 64.233.161.104
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Do your own DNS. Your ISP chokes in AAAA ('IPv6') look ups. If you're not 
allowed to, still run a local resolver with aggressive neg ttl caching.

See the numerous tutorials on the web on how to run your own resolver.
-- 
Mel

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