-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 21:13, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >>> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [... snip resolution to dns delays...] >>>>> >>>>> How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns >>>>> servers and no other firewall than what comes with Debian by >>>>> default. >>>> >>>> I just googled a list of public dns servers and tried several >>>> in a row. They all showed the same problem suggesting that the >>>> problem is local to me. Or, as I said, I happened to use only >>>> servers in the broken subset of available public servers. >>>> >>>> specifically, it was a series of edits to /etc/resolv.conf to >>>> point to different servers and toggling the single-request >>>> option. >>>> >>>> regardless, it's nice to be snappy again. I didn't realise how >>>> annoying it was... >>>> >>> So to summarize, enabling the single-request option >>> in /etc/resolv.conf solves the 5 second delay issue? Or did you >>> find a non-broken public DNS server in the end? > >> enabling single-request solved the problem for me. > > Just where in resolv.conf do you put the line "options single-requests" ? > > Thanks
I put it at the bottom, after the nameserver entries. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksdYwcACgkQkPq5zKsAFihJnQCeIt2vsYITgfTMxY5gqMeJO8Yk f0kAmgNYftf+XgbeAGZwdJr59S29lN2d =NAew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org