Search Again: Netscape cannot promptly find some sites From: Jerry Tangren Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2000 Time: 1:35:41 pm I have a variety of machines I use for web servers, all of which have entries in our QuickDNS based server. From the network here at work I get fast response time from all servers. When I connect from home through a dial-up ISP, I get good response time from some of the web servers, but others time-out (in the "looking for" phase). If I ask Netscape again for the timed-out site, it usually comes up promptly and continues to promptly display pages for the rest of the session. All is well, but most likely few of our clients are willing to click again. The servers that produce poor response are on a NetBSD system and a MkLinux system, running Apache. The servers that produce good response are on Macintosh OS 8 (Filemaker) and Windows NT 4 (IIS). The only other difference of which I am aware is the reverse look-up. We're on a Class C subnet provided from the main university campus. The reverse look-ups for the two good servers are the same as the server names. For the poorer systems, they reverse look-up default names first entered into the system when the network was established. Would updating the reverse-lookups fix the problem, or am I looking for specific performance hits? --Jerry <tangren@wsu.edu>

Messages In This Thread: Netscape cannot promptly find some sites by Jerry Tangren on Apr 5, 2000 at 1:35:41 pm Re: Netscape cannot promptly find some sites by Men & Mice Support on Apr 5, 2000 at 2:44:06 pm