Looking for a way to speed up recurring DNS lookups on my Ubuntu box. I found a reference to Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing on Ubuntu Blog. Works like a champ. I like that dnsmasq allows me to configure the size of the cache easily. I don’t like that I had to chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf to make it immutable so that the system wouldn’t drop looking at 127.0.0.1 (localhost) first. I tried using the package resolvconf but it caused all lookups to fail. So I used apt-get again to remove it and stayed with just the dnsmasq package.
Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing using dnsmasq
June 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Ubuntu
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sam // Jul 2, 2007 at 9:09 am
add the line
prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
to
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
that will add localhost to your resolve.conf everytime you connect to the internet
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