Faster Browsing In Linux With Local DNS Cache

Posted by hotice on Dec 12, 2009 4:50 AM EDT
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A local DNS cache can help for faster browsing since you’re caching the DNS request instead of attempting that request multiple times. The internet speed will not get any faster, but the browsing speed will improve, because on each website there are usually quite a few DNS requests for which the local DNS cache will be used, bringing the query time to almost 0.

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