I went back and forth between my Debian server and my Fedora desktop and noticed some interesting things. On Fedora DNS lookups work fine in elinks and every other applications except wget, unless ipv6 is enabled in which case it takes exactly 20 seconds to do a DNS lookup. Wget on Fedora still takes 20 seconds to do its DNS lookup even with ipv6 disabled unless I explicitly use the -4 flag with it. On Debian all DNS lookups take 20 seconds for me even with ipv6 disabled. The resolv.conf on both boxes just has the ip of the router listed as the nameserver.
When I added OpenDNS as the first nameserver in resolve.conf, all DNS lookups started working like they should in Debian and wget lookups were corrected in Fedora. If I can figure out how to keep my /etc/ resolv.conf from being wiped out on reboot I think everything will be working correctly. I'm curious why OpenDNS works so much better for me than my ISPs nameservers and why there is this difference in behaviour between Debian and Fedora when both are setup right now as standard clients on the network. Thanks Ian On Mar 30, 11:28 pm, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Another thought, > > Put your isp's DNS servers in the /etc/resolv.conf if the problem is > solved then you know what's awry. Or use OpenDNS's servers. > > Bryan > > Ian wrote: > > | I just installed Debian 5 on an old computer in my basement to act as > | a household server. I always disable ipv6 since my router can't handle > | it, but I noticed that in Debian the module wasn't even loaded. I > | disabled it anyway to be sure. I checked /etc/resolv.conf and it > | points to my gateway. Both wget and elinks give this delay (even when > | ipv6 is disabled in elinks) so I guess it must be something wrong with > | my system wide configuration. Can anyone give me suggestions on what > | to try next? Thanks. > | | > > - -- > A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAknRm9kACgkQh+MLjl5SKYS5hwCeNodiykM+xBVJdtRaZr9DdaMn > EE4An3J0TM+0RQkgrPtsTJiWXr8agr00 > =/+/F > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
