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Subject: Re: DNS problems - slow to resolve
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David Daugherty wrote:

> Are there tools/commands I can use to determine the resolution time
> that my lookups are taking? A lot of my web browser requests are
> timing out (name lookups) and I have to keep hitting refresh until it
> finally resolves.
> 

I'd try using dig:

 > dig www.freebsd.org

At the end look for the query time:

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; WHEN: Sun Jan  2 09:33:07 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 211