caching-namserver

[Bob Goodwin]

John Miller wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> ;; Query time: 58 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>> ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 22 08:21:44 2006
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 212
>>
>> However, I never see single digit delays!
>>     
> This isn't going to help much, except as another data point, but I tried
> 'dig google.com' just out of curiosity.  The first response took 66
> msec; here's the second:
>
> ;; Query time: 2 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 22 08:52:20 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 212
>
> My machine is nothing special (Athlon 1<>2 GHz). 
>   
*Yes, I considered that it might be this ancient box, but it can ping
itself in less than 100µs!

I intend to try it on one of the faster computers I have but this is
my primary box.  An old Pentium III 450 mHz w/~400 megs of RAM.  And
this is the one I am most interested in, everything I do seems to be
done here.  So maybe single digit times are out of the question?

BobG*