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

[Peter Bradley]

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