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Originally posted by MrInsignificant
I have given up on NTL DNS and cache proxies and am now using my own  If you have an old machine with better than a 486 processor and 64 mb of memory I recommend setting up a linux server. Firewall ESSENTIAL
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I can understand how your own DNS may help with resolving requests but can you usefully set up your own web proxy?
i.e. If you set up a web proxy/cache it still has to get it's pages from another cache. There's no way around this is there because NTL transparently intercept port 80 traffic? If you specify another port it means having to specify another proxy (be it NTLs, BTs or whoevers), which means relying on someone elses proxy/cache which could potentially "go down" (or slow) at any time.
It depends if the slow down and failures is in the DNS lookups or fetching pages from the cache.
I'm just wondering if a cache may help as I've got the opportunity to set it up. I've already set up a mail server to bypass NTL which is possible as they don't intercept port 25, and could set up DNS (though my router apparently does DNS caching already), and could set up a web cache with something like squid, but if it's just yet another layer of caching it wouldn't be much use?