[SWLUG] Slow DSL connection (Name resolution??)

[Foeh Mannay]

Hi,

I suspect what you're saying is correct. What I did in the end as my  
wireless router is s**te with DNS lookups is to revise my djbdns setup  
so that it ran a DNS cache listening on localhost. That greatly  
improved the situation.

My router's a netgear DG824M, and for the record it's useless. Then  
again working as a telecomms engineer on cisco kit all day, I probably  
would think that! But seriously, the DNS lookups are not the only  
useless thing with this router!

Foeh

On 07/11/04 17:53:43, Peter Bradley wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 17:32, Matt Hill wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 17:06, Peter Bradley wrote:
> >
> > > I have a small Win XP Pro installation, which runs much quicker
> than the
> > > Linux installation.
> >
> > have you tried using whatever DNS servers the XP machine uses?
> >
> > open up a cmd and type  ipconfig /all  the dns servers should be
> listed
> > there. Pop those in your resolv.conf and give it a try.
> >
> > if that doesn't help, using dig might give you some diagnostic
> > information if the problem is related to name resolution.
> >
> >
> > hope that helps some.
> >
> > Matt
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  Both installations seem to be the same,
> though.  They use the router as the primary DNS and 158.43.240.3 as
> the
> secondary.  I think this is how it should be.
> 
> Could XP be caching the addresses whilst Linux isn't?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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