Oh Hi Shridhar,
thanks for the info, i was beginning to suspect my box. And about vsnl
dial up you can try connecting to the 202.54.10.46 or 45 these appear to
be faster than the 50. The 46 and 45 are connected to 172227 and 172228.
172226 is a sure shot way of getting into a *real* foul mood
sreangsu
p.s. how's your printer ?
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hi Sreangsu
>
> With our compnay internal DNS, I get time out of 2 seconds... Don't know how to
> configure it. The DNS I am running at home, I haven't configured it and I get
> same behaviour i.e. it takes forever to resolve, sometimes...
>
> sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>
> > Another query on name servers. The resolv.conf can have multiple
> > nameservers listed, but when does one switch from 1 to anaother. Ideally
> > there should be some timeout.
>
> > Vsnl bandwidth has apparently nose-dived here in Pune. Previously i did
> > not consider having my own nameserver, but now i think it has become
> > necessary.
>
> I swear... But running DNS hardly helps.. I am running it on my dial up for more
> than two months... It barely helps. VSNL DNS are anyway better the ETH types.
>
> Actually VSNL is facing some problem with their international circuits, at least
> in pune circle. We had net outage last week where few sites were totally down
> for more than a day. In fact on saturday I could not check linuxtoday after
> trying for half an hour. It used to sleep after first birst.
>
> Situation seems better today morning...
>
> >
> >
> > I hope other vsnl-pune_ites are facing the same, or is my config broken.
> > Even for my ppp peer i get a ping round trip of the order 8000 ms and that
> > too with some 50%+ packet loss.( i ping with a "-s 10" a default ping,
> > never comes back)
>
> No I never faced it. When working properly linuxtoday gives delay of around
> 4000-6000 ms which is around 13-15 hops away.
>
> As I mentioned above when we (in our company) got net up after the outage, few
> sites were blazingly fast. For example yahoo.co.in was giving ping delay of
> 6-10ms. That's way too fast but ICQ was totally down...: ((
>
> Bye
> Shridhar
>
>
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