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Hello
I have found a good way to increase the online speed by accident.
Probably some of you already know it, but others like me do not.
dnsmasq is a small Nameserver (with DHCP functionality which is not used
here).
How does it improve online speed?
Well it works as a local DNS cache. Therefor not every DNS lookup that
is needed during surfing, or anywere else in your machine is needed to
be send out to upstream DNS.
Have a look here:
WITHOUT dnsmasq:
$ dig google.com
;; Query time: 21 msec
^^^^
WITH dnsmasq:
$ dig google.com
;; Query time: 1 msec
^^^
That doesn?t sound much. 20msec
But this is only one request, during surfing you do a lot of this.
The advantages are:
– faster name resolution
– less stress on upstream DNS
Here I received a reasonable speed advantage with dnsmasq during surfing.
What needs to be done, if your interrested?
1. install it
$ sudo aptitude install dnsmasq
2. make a copy of your current resolv.conf, which is later used by
dnsmasq for upstream DNS requests
$ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/dnsmasq.resolv.conf
3. change dnsmasq?s config
$ sudo nano -w /etc/dnsmasq.conf
(of course you can use the editor of your choice here)
in /etc/dnsmasq.conf i have changed this:
# Change this line if you want dns to get its upstream servers from
# somewhere other that /etc/resolv.conf
resolv-file=/etc/dnsmasq.resolv.conf
# If you want dnsmasq to listen for requests only on specified interfaces
# (and the loopback) give the name of the interface (eg eth0) here.
# Repeat the line for more than one interface.
#interface=lo
# Or you can specify which interface _not_ to listen on
#except-interface=
# Or which to listen on by address (remember to include 127.0.0.1 if
# you use this.)
listen-address=127.0.0.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This will bind [hehe bind not bind] dnsmasq to only local requests.
This is for the security of your system.
# Set the cachesize here.
cache-size=240
Default here is 150 but i have enough memory.
OK that?s the config for dnsmasq. Easy isn?t it?
4. restart dnsmasq to take into account the new config
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
5. make sure all DNS request go through dnsmasq
$ sudo nano -w /etc/resolv.conf
it should only contain this line:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
You probably could leave other nameservers below this line, but i am not
sure if they are used serial for top to bottom or randomly.
6. make sure our modified /etc/resolv.conf does not get changed by other
programms
at this point YYMV. I have ADSL with pppoe here. If you use DHCP or ippp
you should check to prevent them to change /etc/resolv.conf.
With pppoe it is in:
$ sudo nano -w /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
change the line:
usepeerdns
to
#usepeerdns
OK that?s it.
The changes take into account immediately.
Have fun
Thilo
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