Very slow DNS server

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 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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