Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Scott" <scot-gale@excite.com> To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance Message-ID: <20040531205107.6D512109EE7@xprdmailfe1.nwk.excite.com>
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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!
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