[ale] DNS lookups slooowwww.....

John Wells jbwellsiv at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 22 13:58:16 EDT 2001


Did as you said and it seems to be working.  I have
named running and added my machine's url to
/etc/resolv.conf so lookups will try to query my DNS. 
I can nslookup and dig hosts on both internal and
external nets, but both ping and netscape fail to
resolve.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

John

--- Cleveland Flowe <flowe at innoverse.com> wrote:
> John Wells wrote:
> > 
> > I'm setting up a machine with two interfaces...one
> to
> > a T1 line and the other to a private network.
> > 
> > My /etc/resolv.conf looks like:
> > 
> > search foobar.com
> > nameserver 198.153.233.2 # private network DNS
> server
> > nameserver 38.3.3.3 # external DNS
> > nameserver 38.3.3.2 # external DNS
> > 
> > This configuration allows both machines on the
> > internal and external networks to be looked up.
> > However, when I do a look up on an external site
> (like
> > www.linuxdoc.org), it takes about 15-20 seconds to
> > resolve.  Internal addresses resolve immediately.
> > 
> > If I move the external entries to the top of the
> list,
> > the external address lookups have no delay, but
> the
> > internal lookups fail.  Is there a way to
> configure
> > this so that both lookups perform efficiently?
> 
> John, remove references of the external DNS in
> resolv.conf, and setup
> your private DNS server to forward queries to the
> external DNS. In
> /etc/named.conf, for bind versions 8 or 9, include a
> forwards
> sub-statement in the options statement like so:
> 
> options {
>   forwarders {38.3.3.3; 38.3.3.2;};
> };
> 
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