Resolver

Linux DNS Tuning for Performance and Resilience

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resolver

Linux DNS configuration is usually done during the installation of the system. With proper configuration and tuning, you gain performance and stability.

Summary

DNS Configuration on Linux We often don’t realize the importance of DNS, or name resolving in our infrastructure. The impact when things go (slightly) wrong is huge. Time to have a good look at improving our DNS configuration. How DNS resolving works When your Linux system needs to know the IP address of a particular host, it will use gethostbyname(3) function. This will use the nsswitch configuration stored in /etc/nsswitch.conf. For the related hosts line, it will determine how to do resolving.