FOSS solution for a local machine: DNS

Question

Hi,

I love my Mac. But I have always found that my DNS lookups are as slow, even while flushing caches and I travel over known roads on the Internet (I frequently visit the same websites over and over again). I was wondering if someone would know something a bit more automatic/intelligent than /etc/hosts and less complex and iron forged as BIND.

Thank you for your feedback and answers!

Answer 1

I run pdnsd on my laptop, it has the option to permanently cache dns addresses in case of an unavailable dns server and it can use multiple dns server parallel so you always get a fast response. The timeout is completely configurable so you'll never have to wait long if you don't want to :)