Making Web Browsing faster under Linux

At the office, the network is badly configured. Apparently, name resolution is not a priority and it is really slow. So, what I did was to install bind and use my own name server.

Disclaimer: expect bad English or rather, techno-babble to follow.

As I use gentoo, I first had to install bind.

emerge bind bind-tools

Then, you have to

rc-update named default

so that bind is always started when the machine reboots. Start bind with

/etc/init.d/named start

I modified /etc/resolv.conf by adding

nameserver 127.0.0.1

and I made sure that dhcpcd wouldn’t rewrite my /etc/resolv.conf file by adding the line

dhcpcd_eth1=”-R”

to the file /etc/conf.d/net. Finally, restart your network by

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

or

/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

like here where for some reason I have eth1 has my network adapter.