David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 02:08 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >>gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer >>from work to home. >> >>at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it >>used the university dns servers >> >>Now it sits at home, and uses the cheap wireless router as the primary >>DNS. DNS is MADDENINGLY slow, much much slower than it used to be at >>work and also much slower than it is on the other machines on my network >>(both running debian). Ther esolv.conf files on all 3 machines are the >>same. So where should I look to try to figure out what the problem is?? >> > > > It might be a problem with your ISP's DNS servers. My ISP has really > crappy DNS. I use other DNS servers because my ISP doesnt resolve some > hostnames, and is sometimes just _really_ slow to respond. > > try a dig on a given hostname using your ISP DNS, then using some other > server. If the first one is slow and the second isnt. That's probably > it. > > $ time dig @ns1.isp.com www.zettazebra.com > $ time dig @ns1.foobar.com www.zettazebra.com
thanks david. Didn't know about dig OR time, that's nice. In fact this turns out to be the problem -- the ISP's primary dns is rotten, andm y cheap SMC router is a little stupid about DNS, I think. I still don't understand why lookup was so much slower on this particular machine than on others, but that's of no great consequence -- I've installed 4.2.2.2 as my primary dns server, and that works great. thanks! matt > > > -davidc > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
