Domestic Internet connection speed is not satisfactory is the fact that many netizens and carrot and stick, in order to maximize the speed of the Internet. A time fast cat plus whip, netants and other network Tools software by netizens. However, most people ignore the impact of the Internet speed of an important link, that is, domain name resolution.
It is well known that each server connected to the Internet has a unique IP address, which is known as a digital URL. But similar to
202.96.134.133 IP address is obviously obscure, inconvenient memory, so people use the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to represent the site address, For example, www.micosoft.com, some people call the text URL, it is to a large extent make up for the lack of IP address, not only easy to remember, but very intuitive. However, when you perform browsing, downloading software and other operations on the Internet, the text URLs you enter must first be resolved by the domain name resolution server (DNS) to the corresponding IP address, and then you can make a real connection, so each ISP has DNS. When you enter a text URL in the browser's address bar, it will first connect to your ISP's domain name resolution server to find its IP address, and if not, connect to the DNS on the previous level to continue the query. On the Internet, there are currently only five "master" level DNS has a complete IP list, so when you connect a text URL, a part of the time is spent in the unnecessary IP address query. Imagine, if your own computer has a more comprehensive list of IP addresses, each time you connect directly from the computer to read the IP address, then how good ah! This is not wishful dreaming, because FastNet99 can make your dream come true.
First, FastNet99 Introduction:
FastNet99 is a free software, has won the United States famous ZDNet five-Star award, its latest version is version 3.1. Downloaded from the Internet FastNet99 3.1.0 is a size 1.68M zip format compression software, with WinZip, such as decompression software to extract it after the SETUP.EXE file to run into the standard Windows software installation process. After installation, run the "start" → "program" → "FastNet99" program group of FastNet99, you can start the program to enter the main interface (such as figure I). The FastNet99 interface is very concise, with four menus and toolbars, the middle of which is add (add), Eidt (Edit), Options (options), Bookmarks (bookmarks) and history (history), and so on five tabs, Through them you can do most of the operation. At the bottom is the three status bar, which displays the number of servers in the current IP list, the most recent operation, and the IP address of the current computer.