Search Again: Re: Annoying DNS Problem From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, March 26, 2004 Time: 1:23:15 am This is definitely a performance issue. You might find that you can solve it using one or more of these ideas: - Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3. The Unix layer should be faster. - Configure your server to forward queries to your NSP's servers. - Faster hardware. - More bandwidth. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 11:02 AM -0500 3/15/04, Simon Wright wrote: >We are running QuickDNS 4.0 to manage DNS on a PowerMac 400MHz G3 >running Jaguar (10.2.8). A lot of our users are reporting that the >first reference to a domain will fail or hang and that all >subsequent references will work. > >For example, if they are running a web browser and enter a URL that >they've not visited before the link will fail often with a server >cannot be found message. If they retry it works immediately and >further links to that site work too. > >This is happening to users both on our local network and who are >using our DNS from outside. > >The Mac running DNS is also running a WebMail application but it >receives light activity. > >Any ideas? Is a 400MHz G3 not enough? Should I upgrade to Panther? > >Thanks. > >Simon

Messages In This Thread: Annoying DNS Problem by Simon Wright on Mar 15, 2004 at 8:03:25 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:23:15 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Scott Haneda on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:35:13 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 8:11:24 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Jim Cobb on Mar 30, 2004 at 10:27:34 am