[ubuntu-za] DNS Server

[Keegan Carruthers-Smith]

If all you are interested in is speed/latency, then check out
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
This is a benchmark tool written to find the best DNS server for you to use.

Keegan

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Soren Aalto <soren.aalto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Neil Manson
> <neil.manson at infotech.monash.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using OpenDNS, specifically for the filtering. I have children in the
>> house who are just getting into Internet searching. The filtering is great,
>> and I haven't noticed any impact on browsing speed.
>
> Agreed about the content filtering -- we used it for awhile on campus.
>  However,
> doing any content filtering on a 1000+ user network is...a real pain,
> because
> our staff generated several "unblock this" requests a day.  So we stopped.
> I've played with using openDNS and/or squidguard to do content
> classification
> from the squid log files -- in our environment it will be easier to permit
> access
> and then have the logging side of things start throwing up red flags &
> communicating to the staff that they...well, shouldn't do things they
> wouldn't
> like to explain to us or their colleagues.
>
>>
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