Namebench for the win! Bad DNS makes my mac slow

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:00:10 -0700

Really bad performance on my MacBook has been driving me up the wall the past few days. Closing all un-needed programs didn’t help. I ran several Mac utilities on my system, rebooted and so on and so forth.

Still no good.

There’s 8GB of RAM in my (latest model - fall 2010) white MacBook and that really sped things up when it replaced the stock 2GB. It was very frustrating.

Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing using dnsmasq

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:06:06 -0700

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.

Performance on Sirius Stuff

Namebench for the win! Bad DNS makes my mac slow

Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing using dnsmasq