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Monday, April 13, 2009

How to cache DNS ?

when you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth, this is obvious. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that tcp/ip really deals with, not words. This is DNS information.

It is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site. Although WinXP and win2000 has a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size.You can do this with the registry entries below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]"
CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001"
CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180"
MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000fa00"
MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit"=dword:0000012d


  • Make a new text file and rename it to dnscache.reg. The copy and paste the above into it and save it. Then merge it into the registry
  • For newbie always be careful to handle registry edit. If possible take support from experts.

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