Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:32:00 +1100 From: "Leo Kliger" <leo@astea.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow DNS Message-ID: <199903100515.QAA13559@astea.com.au>
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let us know how you go..... also, i thought you do want a resolv.conf....... you should have the following entries domain yourdomain.com nameserver 10.0.0.3 (according to your example below) that may be your problem...... > > Joey Garcia Wrote > > PS Have you read Microtimes lately? :) no, why? did you have a particular article in mind? Leo ps. don't forget to delete the sender from your replies to the mail group otherwise the sender ends up receiving your message twice......;) ---------- > From: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net> > To: Leo Kliger <leo@astea.com.au> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Slow DNS > Date: Wednesday, 10 March 1999 03:26 PM > > Leo Kliger wrote: > > > > does nslookup work? > > what are your ping times like? > > how well does the access between the microsoft seem to work? > > is your dns really working? or is the system timing out and then resorting > > to something like your host tables? > > Leo > > I forgot about nslookup, I'll give that a try tomorrow. I think the > ping times weren't too bad, but tomorrow I can write it down and let ya > know. Access between the MS machines seem to be a bit slow to, that's > why I was wondering if it was actually my DNS server or the whole > network in general. There's a few clients using the network to access > the AS/400, but I don't think that will cause that much traffic to slow > things down. > > I am pretty sure my DNS is working. I believe that it is because I can > telnet to shell.foo.com and actualy get access. I have "shell" set as a > CNAME. I also have "ftp" and "www" set as a CNAME. They all get > resolved but it takes time. So I assume that the DNS server is working > correctly. > > I don't have anything but the default (what got set in sysinstall) in > the hosts table, so I assume that it's not resorting to that. I also > don't have a resolv.conf file. I figured I don't need it since I'm > running my own DNS. > > It might just as well be a half ass networking job that I did. Hell for > my first network, it's not so bad. :) Luckily my Boss let's me > experiment all in the name of Research and Development. :) > > Thanks for the help and ideas, > > Joey Garcia > > PS Have you read Microtimes lately? :) > > > ---------- > > > From: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net> > > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Slow DNS > > > Date: Wednesday, 10 March 1999 03:00 PM > > > > > > Okay, so I set up a DNS (Telnet, FTP, and Web server too) at work. > > > Running FreeBSD 2.2.6 Release on a Pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram and a > > > 10Mbs Etherlink III card. We have about 20 users on the network with > > > two NT machines and a bunch of Windows 95/98 machines. > > > > > > I set up the Winblows machines to point at 10.0.0.3 (the DNS, WEB, > > > TELNET, FTP server) for name service. I can telnet to unix.foo.com but > > > it takes forever to actually get everything going it seems. Even FTP is > > > really slow. It will show that it's connected but takes for ever for > > > any data to be sent. > > > > > > Anyone have any idea what could be slowing it down? What bottle necks > > > could there be? Could it be hardware or software? Configuration file > > > that I may have missed? > > > > > > > > > Any help would be great!! > > > > > > Joey Garcia > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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