Acrylic - Cache DNS Resolution

Acrylic is a little gadget able to cache DNS resolution on your computer. DNS (Domain Name server) can resolve the domain name (such as http://www.globalshareware.com) to the IP address which is easily recognized by machine, so the browser can get the page.

It takes about a few milliseconds to 1 second for DNS to resolve a domain name. Caching DNS Resolution on the computer means that each visiting a website can save a second or so. Do not look down this second. It will be amazing to accumulate over a long period, and when DNS has problem, we will hardly be affected because of the cache.

First, download Acrylic, and then, easily configure it.

1. Open the Run dialog (Win + R), type "cmd", ENTER.

2. In the resulting command prompt window, type "ipconfig /all", ENTER.

3. Find the two IP address following the DNS Servers and write them down, such as 212.216.112.112 and 212.216.172.62

4. Open AcrylicConfiguration.ini, type these two IP addresses after PrimaryServerAddress= and SecondaryServerAddress=. e.g. PrimaryServerAddress=212.216.112.112 and SecondaryServerAddress=212.216.172.62.

5. Save, double-click StartService.bat, when "press any key to continue" appears, press Enter.

6. Modify your local DNS address: Open Control Panel, find the network connection, select TCP/IP, click Properties, check "Use the following DNS server addresses", enter 127.0.0.1 in the preferred DNS server.

It's done. If want to uninstall, double-click StopService.bat.