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Can I make DNS resolution quicker?

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screw3d

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This might be a completely idiotic question 😱 but I figured this might be the best place to ask anyway.

So for all my sites hosted on Site5's reseller account, it seems to take a few seconds for my domain to resolve ("Looking up mydomain.com..." on Firefox's status bar).. as opposed to almost instantaneous response from, say, anandtech.com, nvidia.com and ati.com. If I enter the IP address for my website instead of the domain, response is instantaneous so I know it's something to do with DNS resolution (I hope I'm right here..) Ping returns about 80ms from here in Los Angeles to the data center in New Jersey.

Now, I do realize that the sites I mentioned with super quick dns resolution are probably on some uber server setups.. but I want to know if there's anything I can do on my end, or on my webhost's end? I figured that I'd ask here first before firing off a question to Site5 support..

I know it's just a few seconds, but if I'm working on something then it all adds up! 🙂
 
throw it in your hosts file?

also if you want to really see how long name resolution is use nslookup. just type nsloop from a command prompt.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
throw it in your hosts file?

also if you want to really see how long name resolution is use nslookup. just type nsloop from a command prompt.
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hosts file is just a stop-gap solution.. doesn't solve it for other people. but if nothing else works I'll do that 🙂
 
well who has the autorative name server?

plus you only do a DNS query once and then it is cached so you shouldn't see the delay all the time.

try NSLOOKUP to see if it truly is a long query time. could be something else with your page/server setup.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
well who has the autorative name server?

plus you only do a DNS query once and then it is cached so you shouldn't see the delay all the time.

try NSLOOKUP to see if it truly is a long query time. could be something else with your page/server setup.
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Since it's a reseller account, I have setup my name server to ns1 and ns2.mydomain.com.. I have no idea what an authoritative name server is though 😱

According to nslookup ("nslookup mydomain.com"), the non-authoritative answer points to mydomain.com. 😕

As I said, it is working fine, and probably setup correctly so it's no big deal. But it'll be nice if it worked a wee bit faster 😉


 
Had similar issues and finally changed my DNS servers from the default RR ones to 206.124.64.253 and
206.124.65.253. Resolved most of my delay issues. Those I think belong to Verizon.
 
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