Ah, yes..dig. Forgot that it had a resolve time in there. Here's a perfect example of the slowness I'm talking about: su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out su-2.05b# dig yahoo.com ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> yahoo.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1563 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 5M IN A 216.109.112.135 yahoo.com. 5M IN A 66.94.234.13 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns2.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns3.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns4.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns5.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1d6h52m8s IN NS ns1.yahoo.com. ;; Total query time: 6179 msec ;; FROM: datasphereweb.com to SERVER: 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 2 09:55:17 2005 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 149 First one didn't resolve in time. Second one, 6 seconds!!! On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:49:28 -0500, David Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with resolv.conf is that it just puts insightbb.com in > there. Doing a whois on insightbb.com gives a few DNS servers but none > of them are any speedier lookups then the others. If I put the IP that > insightbb.com resolves to it's still slow. > > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:41:20 -0600, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:22, David Daugherty wrote: > > > I'm running BIND 9 for my own DNS and I'm connecting to the > > > Internet through cable modem. In my named.conf I have a forwarders > > > section where I put the IPs for my ISPs DNS. Since my connection to > > > the ISP is DHCP how can I determine the DNS IPs that have been > > > assigned? I don't see it when man'ing ifconfig. > > > > /etc/resolv.conf lists which nameservers your system is using. > > > > (Hope I didn't completely interpret your question) :-/ > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > > > Josh Paetzel > > > > -- > Doc > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 317.536.1858 > > "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do > nothing." > - Edmund Burke > -- Doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317.536.1858 "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
