On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:56 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 5/12/07, Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > > > > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > > > > > > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS > > > > lookups. > > > > > > > > This is what's in my sources.list file: > > > > > > > > debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > > > > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD > > > > Binary-1 20070407-12:15]/ etch contrib main > > > > > > You should add on lines after that lines that point to your mirror of > > > choice. Mine (in Canada) is: > > > > > > deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free > > > > > > This ensures that you get the most up-to-date packages within Etch > > > (stable). > > > > > > And if you want: > > > > > > deb http://debian-multimedia.org etch main > > > > > > deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main \ > > > contrib non-free > > > > I've added these lines and downloaded the latest updates. Still I > > have incredibly slow DNS lookups. Like I mentioned earlier, this is > > definitely not happening in Windows Vista which runs on the same > > machine from a different drive/partition. > > > > Once the DNS lookup completes, things seem pretty fast. I'm not sure > > where else to look at this point. > > > > This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried > installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set > up. > -- > Kushal > >
No I sure haven't, but that's probably a good thing to do anyway. I think we are narrowing in on the problem as something to do with DNS relay through my local router. Doing a time dig on the actual ISP DNS address was extremely fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
