Re: slow DNS lookups from firewall

OK Another take on this: I'm trying to debug why DNS lookups from a Debian woody firewall machine have become slow over an ADSL link to British Telecom's DNS servers (router and servers not changed lately). I'm an amateur sysop but generally cope well but need some help debugging this. Machine h

slow DNS lookups from firewall

I have a small home network of two Debian stable machines and two Windoze portables (boo hiss but my work and spouse's require that). I'm hitting something that's puzzling me which is that DNS lookups from the firewall machine are slow whether directly or from the Windoze machines behind while DNS