On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > Just where in resolv.conf do you put the line "options single-requests" ?
I don't think it matters, but I put it right after the nameserver entry. A
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