[ale] DNS problems with comcast, anyone?

[Yu, Jerry]

It is the Netgear router in my case. I switched to Netgear 814NA last
weekend from my own home-made linux router. During the notable delay, the
status bar on Firefox says 'look up for blah.blah.site', while command line
'nslookup blah.blah.site' using comcast's DNS server returns proper IP right
away. More revealing is, this was never a problem with my own Linux-based
router (no DNS cache or proxy). 

One related note: not sure what kind of processor Netgear 814NA use, but it
struggles to reach 180 KBs for certain FTP/SSL session while I max out at
the 200 KBs using my own P166 CPU-32M RAM-RH9 based router.



# -----Original Message-----
# From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
# Michael D. Hirsch
# Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:03 PM
# To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
# Subject: [ale] DNS problems with comcast, anyone?
# 
# 
# I'm having name resolution problems at home, and I was 
# wondering if it was my 
# router, or my ISP (Comcast).  Is anyone else having this problem?
# 
# With alarming frequency, name resolution is failing.  If I 
# load a web page I 
# get a "hostname not found" error.  Usually, reloading the web 
# page makes it 
# load.
# 
# Possibly the same thing is that pages seem to load very 
# slowly, too.  If DNS 
# is taking a long time that could cause it.
# 
# I have a Netgear router in between me and my ISP which acts 
# as a DNS relay, 
# and it seems like that could be the problem, or it could be 
# Comcast having 
# problems.  Do any of y'all have similar problems with comcast?
# 
# Thanks,
# 
# Michael
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