RE: Skyrocketting DNS lookup times

I have already done that, setting up a caching only configuration.
Things got somewhat better, but still in the few seconds delay region. I
am suspecting the primary DNS zone server (the M$ one).

Can I control parameters like the nr. of entries in the NT server? I
haven't found anything like that. To be honest I don't know anything
like that with BIND (but, on the other hand I don't have experience in
BIND).

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Samuel [SMTP:michael@surfdirect.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 4:35 PM
> To: Evaghelos Tsiotsios
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: Skyrocketting DNS lookup times
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Evaghelos Tsiotsios wrote:
>
> > Our primary DNS server is on NT 4.0. (M$ DNS server)
> > Taking a look at our cachemgr output I see that, although I have
> > enough dnsserver processes (3-4 always spare: i.e. 0 requests), the
> > lookup times are skyrocketting, ranging in the 10 seconds area.
> > Has anyone else experienced the same situation?
> > Has anyone tried the Software.com BIND port to NT?
>
> See what happens if you set up BIND on a Unix box (eg. your proxy
> cache).
> But, then again, it might just be that you've gotten a bad lot of dns
> entries.
>
>
> Michael Samuel,
>
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Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 07:31:31 MDT