From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 13:51:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519F516A4CF for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from excite.com (nn6.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304D543D45 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scot-gale@excite.com) Received: by xprdmailfe1.nwk.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D512109EE7; Mon, 31 May 2004 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT) To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Received: from [69.42.7.251] by xprdmailfe1.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Mon, 31 May 2004 16:51:07 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = c21cc6bbdc82052d725bb1dd02f505c3 From: "Scott" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: scot-gale@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040531205107.6D512109EE7@xprdmailfe1.nwk.excite.com> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: scot-gale@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:51:21 -0000 Thanks, Matthew, you were exactly right. My ISP has given me problems with DNS before, but it never manifested in this way. Instead, in the middle of a browsing session both DNS servers would fail and I would simply type in the information for a DNS server from another ISP into resolv.conf. The thing that took my mind off DNS was the slowness of startx--I never knew that it did DNS lookups when X was launched. Anyway, reversing the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf worked. Interestingly enough, while booted into Windows I noted the IP addresses of the DNS servers offered with that DHCP lease and they were entirely different. Further investigation revealed that my ISP is currently offering leases that point to other ISP's nameservers, so I gather that my ISP is aware that they have DNS problems. Thanks again. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!