[ale] DHCP name resolution REAL sloooooow.....

[Sergio Chaves]

Login to the modem's setup page. There you will see numbers for the Primary 
and Secondary DNS servers. Those are the numbers I use on my resolv.conf 
using the same format as Randal's below.

Sergio

On Friday 15 December 2006 13:44, Randal Jarrett wrote:
> That is a strange setup.  From the next message I am gathering that
> 192.168.1.254 is your gateway/router or their modem?
>
> If it is the ISPs modem get yourself a router, something like a
> Linksys.
>
> Now back to the problem,  that isn't a valid setup for your
> resolv.conf unless the gateway/modem/router is a dns server.
>
> The ones given in the following message are good ones except
> it is usually best to use your ISPs dns servers first and
> only use the others for backup.
>
> Check with your ISP and find out what the real dns servers are
> and put them in the resolv.conf.
>
> Then put one or more of the others.
>    nameserver 4.2.2.4
>    nameserver 4.2.2.3
> also
>    nameserver 4.2.2.2
> works
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:55 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > Randal,
> >
> > Thank you for your response.
> >
> > I include, as attachment, a copy of the resolv.conf that results from
> > using BellSouth DSL.
> >
> > Cordially,
> > Courtney
> >
> > Randal Jarrett wrote:
> > >What does DHCP have to do with name resolution?  I thought that
> > >is done by DNS.
> > >
> > >>From my understanding the only thing that DHCP could do wrong
> > >
> > >is give an invalid server address for DNS.
> > >
> > >The other thing is if you are using DDNS and it isn't configured
> > >correctly.
> > >
> > >My first guess would be invalid address in resolv.conf as was mentioned.
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 02:49 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > >>What would cause name resolution using dhcp to be so slow on one
> > >> machine on my LAN but not the others ?
> > >>
> > >>Thank you,
> > >>Courtney
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> >
> > plain text document attachment (resolv.conf)
> > search launchmodem.com
> > nameserver 192.168.1.254
> > nameserver 192.168.1.254
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