Saturday, December 9, 2006

Speed up browsing by DNS cache

Each time u browse a web site on the internet,
the actual site name u type is resolved to an ip address.
This translation is effected through what is called the
DNS (Domain Name System).
This DNS information is stored in ur computer so that each time u type a web address ,
a record of its IP address is stored so that it can be recalled later without having to retrieve it again.
1 way to speed up ur browsing experience is to increase this DNS cache in windows XP.
u will need to modify registry for this.
Start notepad & enter the following text into it:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic esDnscache\Parameters] "CacheHashTableBucketSize"=dword:00000001 "CacheHashTableSize"=dword:00000180"MaxCacheEntryTtILimit"=dword:0000fa00 "MaxSOACacheEntryTtILimit"=dword:0000012d Save this file, naming it dnscache.reg
Double click on the file in windows explorer & merge it into ur registry.

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