You may try running a netmon or ethereal trace to see exactly what is going on with your DNS requests.
I have seen weirdness in the way the w2k dns client handles name resolution. Nothing on the order of 3-4 minute delays, but delays nonetheless. Most of the problems I have seen revolve around the dns client "assuming" that the dns server would (by default) be a win2k Active Directory DNS server, hence querying the dns for AD specific dns structures. Perhaps running a tcpdump on your leaf will yield results as well. If the dnscache is trying to relay the funky win2k dns lookups to the internet, you could incur a delay. This is, of course, 100% speculation mixed with a bit of ignorance for good measure. Mike Kory Krofft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lynn, > > Thanks for weighing in on this. Unchecking the autodetect had no effect. > it seems some URLs are not a problem so I am getting used to checking my > mail pop prior to browsing and by the time I finish the mail the > browsers > work fine. I see some mention of appending dns suffixes in the TCP setup > on 2K but have no clue what that does. I tried a few of the options but > none seemed to help. I wonder if I could figure out the IP of the Road > Runner > DNS Server and use it as a secondary DNS if that would fix the problem? > Any clue how to get that info short of calling RR. > > Thanks, > > Kory > > Lynn Avants wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:07 pm, you wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded my computer to Win2K. Once completed I find that > > > when I open any browser I get host not found errors for any websites > > > I try to view for about a minute or so then things start to work and > > > after 3 or 4 minutes everything works fine. > > > > > > The network information is: > > > 6 clients on small network 4 are win98SE one RH 8.0 and one Win2k. > > > Firewall is a pentium 225 with Bering RC3 with DNScache. > > > All the clients access the internet flawlessly except for the Win2K > > > box. It is configured with the primary dns as the internal i'face on > > > the firewall as it should be. The firewall logs show nothing for the > > > time period when the connections fail. > > > > The logging would be through daemon.log and/or syslog. Win2K/XP uses > > a combined WINS/DNS combination that breaks all other DNS and WINS > > rfc's (M$ just applied to add their idea as a new rfc). Strange things can > > happen because of this. As you later noted, you have checked for Win2k > > to "automatically detect" your network settings..... uncheck this as it is > > likely causing your connection lag. You don't have anything to discover > > outside of the dhcp information that is sent during the boot of the system. > > Any other problems are likely because of the WINS/DNS discovery affecting > > that particular OS. > > > > I personally haven't had problems with any of these OS's, but I know of other > > people that have. > > -- > > ~Lynn Avants > > Linux Embedded Firewall Project developer > > http://leaf.sourceforge.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html