From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 8:57:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A751536E for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:57:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gummibear@we.mediaone.net) Received: from gummibear (we-24-130-60-137.we.mediaone.net [24.130.60.137]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA15427 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:57:29 -0800 (PST) From: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990313090012.007a0650@we.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gummibear@we.mediaone.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:00:12 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slow DNS - Follow-Up Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, I wrote in a few days ago about some DNS problems I had at work. After getting frustrated because I couldn't figure out the specific hardware info for a TGUI 9680 graphics card (I wanted to do it fast because I had an NT guy standing behind me saying that Unix was too hard and stuff -- I wanted to prove him wrong -- oh well -- Now, I'll just have to prove that Unix is more stable, faster, better than NT which shouldn't be a problem), I reinstalled with just the Kernel-Development option because I'm just going to end up putting this machine in some corner of the room or something. At first I tried using "The Complete FreeBSD" book as my guide for writing the DNS stuff. I guess I either didn't follow it correctly, or I just totally screwed it all up when I tried to moidfy his example for my network. I did a Yahoo! search and found http://www.verinet.com/dns/ which did a great job of giving me some examples. I redid all the DNS files and stuff, then I fired it up. Now it's blazingly fast and kicks ass. :) I had mentioned that I had thought that was possibly network traffic slowing things down, because the Windows machines had a hardtime browsing each other. Well I found out another thing. When the experimental NT was up, everything was slow (heh - typical). Don't kow why. Also, since my original DNS stuff was screwed I guess the lookups were slow. Although, that had nothing to do with slowing the network down. Now that the FreeBSD box is running tight. I have to figure out what's the problem with NT server. For those that had replied before -- Thanks!! Joey ================================================================ Joey Bear Garcia Downey, CA bear@pacificnet.net ================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message