Registery Editing

[Benjamino]

Has anyone ever gone to AnalogX.com (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm)?
This guy has some good stuff. Anyway, I got the DNS caching program and it sounds great. (I have an ISP that farms out his DNS, and it has problems all the time) One of the things it asks you to do it set your DNS address to 127.0.0.1. Windows whines that you can't do that. I checked the registery. Well here is the confusion: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service s\Tcpip\Parameters :rolleyes: on NameServer it "is" set to 127.0.0.1. Even though windows "won't" allow me to change it in the TcpIp settings. Any clues? Or a way to override this?

PS: I also changed the windowing, which is suggested for broad-band connections... I can pull 6.2k off my lil'56k now easy. :D

For Windows 2k:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters

Either create or edit DWORD Value GlobalMaxTCPWindowSize=dword:00007fff

For Windows 9x/ME
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\MSTCP

Either create or edit String Value Default-RcvWindow=32767

Also, make sure that the OS has RFC 1323 enabled. To do this:
Set the Tcp1323Opts key to 1

[Benjamino]

Don't we have any l33t registery haxors in here?

[zhotfire]

I just do what the "pros" tell me :rolleyes: .....

[veggyhed]

I wish I knew more about the registry. If I had a machine I could just play on like my Linux box I would try more stuff . Maybe I should find some cash and buy another box :D Donations anyone :)

[Benjamino]

Have a pay pal account? hehe

[Benjamino]

No, really though. After the windowing change, my connection is like a whole new beast. (if you can call 56k a beast :rolleyes: ) If you have broadband then I suggest you do it. Forget about the RFC 1323 though. That messed my connection up, it would stop receiving. :(

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Benjamino
Anyway, I got the DNS caching program and it sounds great.

I don't know a thing about that program - - but I do find it useful to put addresses in the hosts file. You can manually add the names of the places you visit regularly and your machine won't have to ask your ISP's DNS.

It's also a good place to kill a certain amount of popup ads. See http://www.smartin-designs.com/downloads.htm

[Benjamino]

Yes, but that is the point. I don't want to have to edit manually the Host file all the time. This will do it for me, or keep it's own anyway. Ty though Bruce.

[veggyhed]

Originally posted by Bruce


I don't know a thing about that program - - but I do find it useful to put addresses in the hosts file. You can manually add the names of the places you visit regularly and your machine won't have to ask your ISP's DNS.

It's also a good place to kill a certain amount of popup ads. See http://www.smartin-designs.com/downloads.htm

So does this really work. Is it worth the time to do ?

[Bruce]

It works for me and didn't take all that much time to do. I never put in the pseudo-web-server that loads a specific icon in place of the missing images, but probably should look into that.

[veggyhed]

I am going to give it a try. Started reading through some of the stuff there ......

[Louis_Berding2002]

I'm trying the DNS out...so far no real improvement...I installed it just like it said to for WinXP.

[Louis_Berding2002]

Hey...I couldn't find it anywhere...with Fast Cache...what do I enter into the DNS servers in the configuration screen. they're set to 0.0.0.0 and it can't work that way. What is the IP adress of a DNS server?

[veggyhed]

I thought u should use 127.0.0 but hey I am waiting for your test results on this. :D

[Louis_Berding2002]

Well, That's what I set my connection to use....127.0.0.1. And, my IE works perfectly with looking at the program for DNS...

But, the program hangs, and still gives a 404. I read the read me file...and it says that if the icon is red...you have not entered the DNS info into fastcache. But, I have no idea of the IP of my ISP's DNS, and the website, and the read me mention nothing of what to enter in that field.

:confused:

:::What the icon means:::
When the program is running, it appears as three small boxes on the system
tray (at the lower right of the desktop). When the program is running
normally and not doing anything it will be grey, when a request comes in the
upper box turns green to indicate it is processing. The lower left box turns
green when the request is found in the cache and the lower right box turns
green when the request comes from the remote DNS servers. The lower right box
is split into two parts, the left part represents the primary DNS server and
the right part represents the secondary DNS server, so you can see which
server answered the request first. If the icon is red, that means it was
unable to start for some reason.

:::Common problems:::
If the tray icon is red, then the DNS server was unable to start for some
reason. The most common cause is that the primary and secondary DNS servers
are not entered in the configuration screen.

If the tray icon is grey, but never turns green when browsing around the web
then most likely DNS requests are not being sent to the program. This usually
means that in the Network Settings for your computer, the IP 127.0.0.1 is not
set as the DNS server - check out the "Configuring your computer" for more
details.

[veggyhed]

Did u get this sorted out ? Is it working for u now.