--- Brook Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 30 December 2002 05:14 pm, David Walser > wrote: > > > > > From what someone said earlier, maybe it's trying > to > > do host lookups. Maybe the problem would be > worked > > around if you ran your own nameserver locally. > Definitely not. In my case I am running a name > server for my connection > sharing and when the cable modem was down it would > still cause severe > slowness on all linux boxes on the network actually. > I never looked into it > more than this because I never had the time but I > can say that not having a > local name server is not the problem.
How did you configure it? According to the DNS-HOWTO, how you configure forwarding can make a difference. I was able to solve some slowness when the connection is down by running BIND here. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
