Search Again: Re: Response Times From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003 Time: 10:57:51 am This is becoming a FAQ. Here is the answer we sent to someone privately, earlier this morning: This is a fairly common problem. The problem affects sites hosted by Akamai, including Apple, Yahoo, and others. The problem is not specific to QuickDNS. Instead, it appears to be a combination of factors, including using Mac OS X as the client platform - we suspect there's some problem in lookupd. BIND 8 (the name server included with both Mac OS X and QuickDNS for Mac OS X) may also be a common factor, but we're not sure. There is a separate problem with Safari that has been reported on QuickDNS Talk. This parallel but apparently unrelated problem makes it even harder for us to sort through the evidence that's been presented to come up with a coherent theory of the problem. Unfortunately, other than the three factors we've mentioned (ignoring the separate Safari problem), we haven't found any other commonalities, and there are plenty of counterexamples that contain these factors. In other words, other people with very similar configurations don't experience this. The only workaround we can suggest is to simply try again. Whenever an Apple, Yahoo, or other page fails to load, simply try again. Usually, this works. One person has reported that he must try 3 or 4 times to get the Apple website to come up. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 8:49 AM -0500 3/29/03, Jim Cobb wrote: >Yes, I am having the same problem. It' s strange it happens only >with certain domains, for example www.apple.com is one, where you >have to hit the enter button 2 or 3 times before it comes through. I >thinking it was a routing problem with my isp but now that I think >about it, it did start with 4.5. If you put in the IP directly there >is no problem... > > Jim > >On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 01:46 AM, Karl Keithley wrote: > >> >>QDNS 4.5 seems to go deaf every so often. It will not find hosts >>and just seems slow to respond to queries. >> >>Run in a Mac G3/333 with 160MB of RAM on OS X 10.2.4 >> >>Anyone else with the same thing? QDNS 4 didn't have this problem. >>Ran very fast and always responsive. >> >> >>Karl

Messages In This Thread: Response Times by Karl Keithley on Mar 28, 2003 at 10:47:26 pm Re: Response Times by Jim Cobb on Mar 29, 2003 at 5:49:37 am Re: Response Times by Men & Mice Support on Mar 29, 2003 at 10:53:01 am Re: Response Times by Men & Mice Support on Mar 29, 2003 at 10:57:51 am Re: Response Times by mattb on Mar 29, 2003 at 11:58:15 am Re: Response Times by Jim Cobb on Mar 29, 2003 at 12:55:33 pm Re: Response Times by Len Conrad on Mar 29, 2003 at 5:16:11 pm Re: Response Times by Men & Mice Support on Mar 29, 2003 at 5:48:11 pm Re: Response Times by Jim Cobb on Mar 31, 2003 at 9:56:26 am Re: Response Times by Men & Mice Support on Mar 31, 2003 at 11:06:51 pm Re: Response Times by Jim Cobb on Apr 11, 2003 at 6:17:49 pm Re: Response Times by Men & Mice Support on Apr 11, 2003 at 6:38:31 pm