Search Again: Re: Slow Server replies From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Time: 11:37:32 am Well, keep in mind, there are up to four different things being looked up, because most versions of nslookup make a bunch of silly assumptions. The first thing to be looked up is the server's address. Next, it may look up the server's PTR record. Then it gets around to looking up the requested record, possibly followed by a PTR record query for that. If I use dig, from the US, the total query time to query your server and get the response back is less than a quarter second. (This involves just one query, because lookupd already knows the address of mail.goya.com.au at this point.) However, the first several attempts at using nslookup resulted in a "no such server" error message. So ti took quite a while for my local name server (running on my PowerBook, as it happens) to look up the address of your server in the first place. At this point, I can't tell why this happened. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy At 3:59 PM +1000 7/21/04, Nicholas Orr wrote: >How do you diagnose a slow dns server? > >I've got the latest quickdns running on 10.2.8 behind a NAT router >with every port re-directed to this one machine. If I do a request >from outside my network such as : > >nslookup://webmail.goya.com.au;querytype=A;server=mail.goya.com.au > >It takes about 3 seconds to reply. How do I go about debugging this? > >Thanks, >Nick

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