Tim: >> Remember that a lot of look-ups are going to be to do with web browsing, >> where (for DNS that is working well) the tiny amounts of time involved >> in resolving an address is nothing compared to the general lethargicness >> of web browsers rendering pages. Dotan Cohen: > That's true. Have you seen the KillerNIC? (OT) Don't think so, the term's doesn't sound familiar. Dotan Cohen: >>> Looks like it can be made about half it's own size if white space is removed. >> Much of that is tabs, not spaces, so it's smaller than it looks. I >> think we're past the days of 4 meg 386 boxes, where you needed to be >> concerned about whether a file was using 5 or 10k of space. > I'm frugal :) So, remove about six tabs at the start of the file... It only needs white space between some parameters, it doesn't *need* several of them. ;-) >> Just looking through my /var/named/ directory, where such files are >> kept, the main one's 1.6kB, there's a few around 198 Bytes, and my one >> filled with domains to get no answers for (doubleclick, etc.) is only >> 186 Bytes. > Want to share that one with me? I don't do a great deal of web browsing, so I've only bothered to stick a few common annoyances into my DNS server. Some of them are very old, I don't know if they still exist. This is in the named.conf file: ## advert blocking: zone "adimages.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "admonitor.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "adsfac.net" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "advertising.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "amazingmedia.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "casalemedia.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "clickagents.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "commission-junction.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "doubleclick.net" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "doubleclick.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "adwords.google.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "googlesyndication.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "fastclick.net" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "infospace.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "mediaplex.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "msads.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "ads.optusnet.com.au" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "qksrv.net" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "ads.x10.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; zone "adserver.yahoo.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; #zone "yimg.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; And this is the dead.zone file: $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns.localdomain. hostmaster.mail.localdomain. ( 200 ; serial 28800 ; refresh 7200 ; retry 604800 ; expire 86400 ; ttl ) IN NS ns.localdomain. Yep, that's the whole thing (9 or 10 lines worth, if you want to get rid of a carriage return). Look-ups for any of the above domains, or sub-domains of them, result in an instant "no answer" answer. This one DNS server does the job for all the PCs on the network. -- Test running FC6 & FC5, and still using FC4. I delete all private mail, unseen. I read from the list. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list