I haven't noticed any latency or downtime with Verizon or HawaiianTel for the last 4 years. The whole time I've been doing local caching. If you suspect your dns is lagging, you can try this too, using dnsmasq. The simplest setup would be to configure dhclient.conf to add 127.0.0.1 to point to a local copy of dnsmasq (easy to install and configure).
dnsmasq - "Supported platforms include Linux (with glibc and uclibc), *BSD and Mac OS X. Dnsmasq is included in at least the following Linux distributions: Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Suse, Smoothwall, IP-Cop, floppyfw, Firebox, LEAF, Freesco, fli4l, CoyoteLinux, Endian Firewall and Clarkconnect. It is also available as a FreeBSD port and is used in Linksys wireless routers and the m0n0wall project." Tom On 6/1/06, Peter Besenbruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Imai wrote: > On Ubuntu and Mepis systems I was getting slow internet response > using Roadrunner. The name resolution seemed to take nearly a minute. > I tried changing the default nameservers and that made a difference. > It was faster with the lava.net, hawaiiantel.net and flex.com > nameservers, and slower with rr.com and aol.com nameservers. Why is > that? Verizon had that problem, too, and it affected Windows machines. One person mentioned location; I suspect that, like Verizon, the name servers are not up to the traffic. You pay a lot for Lavanet, but it is always fast. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
