On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > >> > >> How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns servers and no > >> other firewall than what comes with Debian by default. > > > > I just googled a list of public dns servers and tried several in a > > row. They all showed the same problem suggesting that the problem is > > local to me. Or, as I said, I happened to use only servers in the > > broken subset of available public servers. > > > > specifically, it was a series of edits to /etc/resolv.conf to point to > > different servers and toggling the single-request option. > > > > regardless, it's nice to be snappy again. I didn't realise how > > annoying it was... > > > So to summarize, enabling the single-request option in /etc/resolv.conf > solves the 5 second delay issue? Or did you find a non-broken public DNS > server in the end?
enabling single-request solved the problem for me. I cannot definitively state that the problem is in my network, but I suspect it is. I found no public dns that did not have the problem for me suggesting that the problem is local to my network somewhere. A
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