On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > > resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to > > access a dns such as google, or debian.org, it takes for ever to resolve > > the dns. Whether I'm using firefox or lynx to browse the web or msmtp to > > send email, the resolving of dns is over 30 seconds. If I use the ip > > address though, access is almost instant. So what can I do to solve this > > problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same > > system works fine, and no one else on the network seems to have issues > > like these. The issue started happening when I got my new dsl2 modem > > (netgear, nb5). As I said I did a reinstall, and with the base system > > and testing with lynx, I found the problem pretty much the same. So how > > can I speed up dns resolution? > > Do you see any difference in the response time for the following two > queries? > > dig -t A debian.org > > dig -t AAAA debian.org
The last one times out. The first one takes a little while to resolve, if I run it straight away again (the first dig command, it is pretty fast)
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