Use FastNet99 to erect your own free DNS server

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 4.3. After the download with WinZip, such as decompression software will be extracted after the operation of the SETUP.EXE file, into the standard Windows software installation process. After the installation, run the "start" → "program" → "FastNet99" program group of FastNet99, you can start the program to enter the main interface. 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.

Second, the use of methods:

FastNet99 uses a variety of methods to modify the hosts document (IP list) under the Windows directory, if the experience is correct, the computer will automatically refer to this file when surfing the Internet, and do not need to query the remote DNS, so you can improve the speed of the Internet to some extent, over time, the speed of Ascension will

(i), four ways to add IP addresses:

1. Scan history

: This feature is implemented through the History tab. FastNet99 allows the user to scan the history of the browser and add the visited URLs to the IP list. Three major web browsers, such as the Microsoft Internet, Netscape Communicator, and opera, which hold historical directories or files, respectively, c:\windows\history directories, Fat.db and Global.dat files. Under normal circumstances, when you press search the Registry (search the registry), the software will soon be able to correctly search the system installed browser and locate the history. Then, by pressing the scan button, the software begins to scan the IP address of the URL that has been visited, and of course it must be online. When the scan is finished, a specific result is displayed in the status bar in the middle.

2, scan Favorites (bookmarks): In addition to scanning the history, FastNet99 can also scan the above three browser favorites (bookmarks), really thoughtful. Click the Bookmark tab to enter (Figure II). The implementation of the specific method ibid. To point out here, the Favorites (bookmarks) for IE, NC, and opera3.xx are: \windows\favarites directories, Bookmark.htm, and Opera3.adr files.

3, add Manually: Add tab for users to manually add IP list provides a great convenience. The software offers two types of manual additions: Find IP (look for IP) and find URLs (look for URLs). When you select "Look Up IP", there will be a text input box below, where you enter the text URL you want to find, for example: http://www.bianceng.cn, and then press OK button. If found, the done is displayed or an error message is displayed. FastNet99 is very fast looking for IP. If you choose to "Find URLs," there will be two input boxes, set the range of IP addresses to look up, the program will look for you in the scope of all text URLs, of course, the purpose is to add the scanned URL to the IP list.

4, combined IP list: If you have a list of IP on hand or the IP list of the ISP's DNS, you can use the software Hostsmerge program, so that your computer turned into a small DNS, but this seems too exaggerated a bit.

(ii), Edit IP list: Click on the Edit tab to enter the IP List Editor. Here you can delete, copy, verify and so on. In the bottom of fast URLs search (fast URLs) column, fill in the URL, Software will be like the IE5.0 URL bar intelligent input as quickly as possible to find the URL, you can not only edit it, but also press the ping button in the toolbar, ping the information about the site, very convenient. In addition, the software provides an alias for the URL, but the effect is not ideal in actual use.