Web Server Hacks Blog - Hacks for Dedicated/VPS Servers, SSH, and Plesk » dns cache http://webserverhacks.com Hacks for Dedicated/VPS Servers, SSH, and Plesk Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:56:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Install DNS Cache on Your Linux Web Server! http://webserverhacks.com/web-server-hacks/how-to-install-dns-cache-on-your-linux-web-server/ http://webserverhacks.com/web-server-hacks/how-to-install-dns-cache-on-your-linux-web-server/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:53:35 +0000 admin http://webserverhacks.com/?p=79 If your website does a lot of queries via domain names such as aggregating RSS feeds or even a Twitter app site that accesses Twitter API, you might benefit from installing DNS cache on your linux web server.

For most, you would benefit from installing DNS cache because it will save you a ton of time for your server to fetch IP addreses. (could be anywhere between 5 to 500ms).

I’ve actually found a great article showing you how to do this on a Linux desktop computer. It actually works fine on web servers too.

Check out WebUpd8.com for full instructions.

Some notes on CentOS users:

You can do “yum install bind-utils” to get the dig program.

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