Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Make the address of the public IP detector configurable

["Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com>]

Le 26/1/2004, "Kilian Krause" <kk verfaction de> a écrit:

>Hi Damien,
>
>Am Mo, den 26.01.2004 schrieb Damien Sandras um 15:48:
>> Answering to myself : forwarders are not really needed in my case as the
>> DNS is not used for anything else than resolving my own domains.
>
>forwarders are for outgoing, not for incoming queries.

That's exactly why I do not need them.

>
>> Le 26/1/2004, "Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com> a écrit:
>> 
>> >>if you fear that you need as much performance - which you will loose
>> >>when using DNS-lookups - your DNS is broken anyway (see "forwarders" for
>> >>named.conf). 
>> >>
>> >
>> >I don't understand your sentence.
>
>It means: usually DNS should be fast enough to not be relevant compared
>to connecting to direct IP. If howsoever your DNS lookup does take too
>long, you might be more lucky using 
>a) a better DNS server (like a one closer to you) - this is for most
>dialup users who query a DNS through half the internet instead of their
>local ISP's DNS server
>b) add a "forwarder" entry to a large DNS server near to you as that
>host has better caching for the root DNS zone and the common TLDs. Thus
>lookup through a busy forwarder DNS will be faster as there's less to
>queries for that host to do.
>
>-- 
>Best regards,
> Kilian