From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 4: 0:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A6037B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 04:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1F643FE1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 04:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef3122e.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.18.46]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CFA480302; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:00:13 +0100 (CET) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: dan@slightlystrange.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolving or blocking eg. doubleclick.net? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:01:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200302121029.14713.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <200302121109.33305.kde.nospam@mekanix.dk> <20030212102223.GA60013@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030212102223.GA60013@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302121301.14497.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > I have just tried to resolve doubleclick.net, and the first hit took > around three seconds. Thereafter, with it cachedi locally, it came back > in at most 0.02 seconds. I reckon your best bet is to persevere - does > the cache demonstrate any advantage at all? No advantage at all. What do you mean by "persevere"? > I put my upstream (ISP's) caches in the forwarders section in named.conf. > While not strictly necessary, as already pointed out, it can give you the > advantage of tapping into a huge set of cached data on your ISP's servers. > Suck it and see - I cannot believe that you are the only person connecting > through your ISP who gets pelted with these bloody ads from doubleclick. Have added them, without seeing any difference in performance. But it does make my tcpdump more readable. > Check for messages in /var/log/messages, or whatever file your named > logs to. /var/log/messages reports nothing unusual. Haven't told named to log somewhere else. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message