From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 20:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voltimand.astea.com.au (unknown [203.20.95.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2546515084 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leo@astea.com.au) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by voltimand.astea.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA25967 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:45 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: voltimand.astea.com.au: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from guildenstern.astea.com.au(222.2.2.20) by voltimand.astea.com.au via smap (V1.3) id sma025965; Wed Mar 10 16:02:11 1999 Received: from kliger.astea.com.au (kliger.astea.com.au [222.2.2.50]) by astea.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13559 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:15:06 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199903100515.QAA13559@astea.com.au> From: "Leo Kliger" To: Subject: Re: Slow DNS Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:32:00 +1100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To: Leo Kliger > 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 > > > 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