Re: Skyrocketting DNS lookup times

>
> Hi all,
>
> Our squid cache (1.1.21) runs on a P75 2.0.33 box with 64 MB of
> RAM.
> Our primary DNS server is on NT 4.0. (M$ DNS server)
> Taking a look at our cachemgr output I see that, although I have
> enough dnsserver processes (3-4 always spare: i.e. 0 requests), the
> lookup times are skyrocketting, ranging in the 10 seconds area.
> Has anyone else experienced the same situation?
> Has anyone tried the Software.com BIND port to NT?
>
> Any help would be really welcome
>

Hi,

I've tried with NT BIND -- it works ok. But maybe yor problem
lies in a slow link of your upstream provider .. have you looked
at your RTT to (for example) any of the "ROOT-SERVERS" ?

Regards,

Alvaro Fdez. Lago
alago@unicies.cesga.es
Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 05:10:36 MDT