RE: Skyrocketting DNS lookup times

Trying with a simple ping to the root servers I get RTTs of 300-700
msec.
I am afraid that 10 secs are still too high... aren't they?
Any hints?
Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alvaro Jose Fernandez Lago [SMTP:alago@galeno.unicies.cesga.es]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 2:05 PM
> To: etsiot@archetypon.gr
> Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: 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 - 07:30:22 MDT