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

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you Sergio.

There are many variables on that page for configuring the service. What 
overall settings do you use, please ?

Thank you,

Courtney


Sergio Chaves wrote:

>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 o.
ne
>>>>>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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