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Date:      Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:26:02 -0800
From:      Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net>
To:        Leo Kliger <leo@astea.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow DNS
Message-ID:  <36E5F45A.FF98C08E@mediaone.net>
References:  <199903100442.PAA12448@astea.com.au>

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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 <gummibear@mediaone.net>
> > 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
> >
> >
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