Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote:
>
>> Hoi Everyone
>>
>> Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser
>> and type www.foo.bar.
>> Now, my problem begins:
>> Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..."
>> In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite
>> a lot of time (more than 15 seconds).
>
> Make sure all the servers in /etc/resolv.conf actually work.  If the  
> first one is down, you'll have to wait for it to time out before Debian 
> will try the second one.

Also, unlike Windows/IE, browsers for Linux do
not provide DNS caching. I use 'dnsmasq' to provide this
facility under debian for my home LAN.

There are others, and yes, caching makes a big difference
in the responsiveness.

-- 
Joel Roth