Very slow DNS server
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Apr 22 23:21:27 UTC 2002
> hi
>
> I have just installed a caching nameserver on my system together with BIND
> 8.2.2
Upgrade yesterday.
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
> Everything works just fine BUT name resolving is VERY slow, this just isn't
> possible
>
> a friend of mine has more or less te same system and also installed bind
> 8.2.2, resolving on his system is much faster
>
> for example, this are resolvings on my system:
>
> dig www.advalvas.be has a query time of 5790 ms
> dig www.freshmeat.net 5503 ms
> dig www.linuxdoc.org 5321 ms
> dig www.cnn.com 1627 ms
> dig slashdot.org 3507 ms
>
> my friend's resolvings for the same domains (and we cleared the cache ) are
> all around 200 ms
>
> my server is a 486 DX4 100 MHz with 40 meg RAM running Redhat 6.0
> my friends server is a 586 Pentium 75 MHz with 40 meg RAM running Redhat 6.0
>
> So there is something wrong on my system, but I can't find what it is, maybe
> some of you guys knows something ??
>
> Thanx ! ! !
>
> Someone
>
>
Time to resolve depends apon many things including network congestion.
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Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
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