Alexandar Tzanov ~ The Titan

Firefox and DNS prefetching – I read about this being a feature in Google Chrome, but I wasn’t sure if it was, yet, a feature of Firefox. It is in Ff 3.5. Here you can find a list of the new features in Firefox 3.5.

What is DNS prefetching? – It is the process of requesting domain name and IP (Internet Protocol or Intellectual Property) address resolution used in links, images, documents and other content linked to from a page a web surfer is currently browsing. Theoretically, by taking care of the name resolution before a surfer desires to navigate to a file or another page from a link on the current page can save fractions to X number of seconds. Name resolution being out of the way the surfer should arrive at its next destination faster. The former is my definition and understanding of DNS prefetching. In my experience, at leased in Google Chrome, I am able to see performance improvements.

I needed to know how can I tell if it is on or off. In Google Chrome it is in the options menu and it can easily be turned on and with a simple check-mark click.

But, in Firefox this is not a function in the options menu. At leased not at this time.

I wanted a way to quickly view the record information on a domain, but I did not want anyone tracking domains I look up. Or like some bad registrars, have any possible domain I look up end up as registered thanks to the ICANN grace period and overpriced registrars trying to extort money before selling the domain.

So, I ended up searching for possible WhoIs scripts and how one could query the domain record information and ended up coming across the whois.php script, which is currently utilized on Domain Record Info. Also accessed via WhoIsMesh.com and DomaIndex.Info.

There are few other options/functions I would like to add to the page – ping, dns report, and various help and tutorials information. Eventually I would like to do something similar to DNS Stuff, but for the moment it will have to wait. Right now I have many other projects.

As you have been able to see and read the site was down due to the host company having some problems. I host my e-mail service through a different company, and even though you were not able to access your email accounts for more than a week, none of your incoming emails were lost. Well, 99 % of them. Any inbound emails send on Thursday, 09-08, were not received due to DNS forwarding issues. As I mentioned previously, I moved the site to new servers, so anything in the last 24 horse was most likely routed improperly and probably bounced back to the sender.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope I will not have to go through this whole process again in the future. But … yes, there is always a “but”, but this is a good “but”. But if you are not able to access the site for any reason, go to – titanfusion.mail.everyone.net. You can log into your email through there.