On 02-Mar-01, Ken Shillito wrote:
>
> David Gerber wrote (in a response to Don Cox):
>
> (snip)
>> This is because of the BIND disease. It takes a query, checks if it's
>> in
> the
>> cache. If it isn't it drops it, starts a background sysquery and
>> expects
> to
>> have it in the cache the next time the client resends the query.
>>
>> So in your case, typing the IP again in netinfo redoes a query which
>> BIND
>> managed to cache by then.
>
> You mean you actually know what *causes* this bug?
>
This isn't a 'bug'. It is a problem with MSIE,Netscape,Opera and iBrowse
as well.
It is dependent on the size of the DNS on the ISP that serves you. As
the number of sites has increased dramatically in the last year, the
response time for queries has dropped, to the point where timeouts are
now frequent.
> What is BIND - is it part of Voyager, or part of the ISP`s or web
> host's software?
It's part of the Domain Name Server usually on the ISP, or passed
through the ISP to their ISP.
> I have a little program I got from Aminet which simply downloads any
> given USR
> path into a file. It is astonishingly fast compared to using any web
> browser.
>
Of course, because it doesnt have to parse the HTML, interpret it,
download and lay out the graphics etc.
--
Bob Q
Rocket Scientist during the day,
Amiga Afficionado all night.
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