Re: Very slow DNS

From: Unforgiven (jaapd4000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:42:09 +0100

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:36fgcaF4hidh0U1@individual.net...
> Unforgiven wrote:
>
>> I get the DNS servers via DHCP.
>
> Okey, DCHP could be the fault to the whole problem, I guess it "sets" your
> hostname too? There are many faulty DHCP servers that don't do things
> properly, there been posts about this before (with other network related
> problems).
>
> If I would be you, I would give the machine a hostname (permanent one
> pointing at 127.0.0.1), add that to your/etc/hosts, copy the DNS numbers
> manually into your /etc/resolv.conf (see to that DHCP won't mess with that
> file).
> This should minimise that there is a local timeout that makes everything
> to take so long time. (DNS Registration: The DHCP Server on Linux can
> register hostnames with DNS. In a Microsoft environment, registration is
> up to the client. -- from DHCP Servers – Microsoft v Linux by Herman
> Verkade)

I haven't tried this yet, but I have figured out that it's not actually my
ISP's DNS servers that're at fault. Somehow, the requests just never reach
the server, since I tried different DNS servers and they all exhibit the
same problem, again both under Linux and Windows.

It also definitely has nothing to do with lag between me and the server:
Tracing route to sherlock.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.8.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms
st1.student.leidenuniv.nl.236.229.132.in-addr.arpa [132.229.236.1]
  2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms sherlock.leidenuniv.nl [132.229.8.6]

Trace complete. 

-- 
Unforgiven

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