Paul Hinker wrote: > This certainly feels like a performance problem. I have a number of other > machines on my network and they do not exhibit this long latency. Web page > references, Sun Studio compiler invocations, etc. all take considerable time > to start up. Why would openSolaris need a caching DNS server when nothing > else does?
Without knowing precisely what's going on with your network, how you've configured your system, and what things you've tried to do, it's almost impossible to give you a clear answer. It does sound (so far) very much like you've got DNS trouble of some sort. Maybe this one system is the only misconfigured system on your network. Maybe all the other systems have IN PTR records and this one doesn't. Maybe there's something else wrong that we haven't found yet. For all we know now, it could even (remotely) be defective hardware. Have you tried "ping -n" to see if there's real latency here or if you're chasing a ghost? How about dig or nslookup to check how things are resolving? Have you looked at the DNS messages in detail with snoop or wireshark? Have you compared the DNS configuration of this machine to the other machines on your network? I think the reports of "latency" -- though subjectively accurate -- are just too vague to get at the real problem. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
