Re[2]: What can make DNS lookups slow?

[Chris Evans <stats@psyctc.org>]

Thursday, January 13, 2005, 6:03:38 PM, Daniel wrote:

DLM> Daniel L. Miller wrote:

>> Let's back up a sec.  On your firewall host - which I am assuming is
>> directly connected to your Internet service - if the only items you
>> have in your resolv.conf are your domain line and your isp's two DNS
>> servers, is the lookup speed still poor?
yes

resolv.conf:
nameserver 213.120.62.97
nameserver 213.120.62.98

lookup time 6.6 secs

DLM> Next question - paste the output of the following command from the firewall:

DLM> route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
217.34.100.194  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth2
217.34.100.192  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.248 U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth2
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
0.0.0.0         217.34.100.198  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Hope this helps and continuing thanks.

Chris