Hello,
On 26-Jul-01, Tim wrote:
> _Replying to a message_
>
> By: Elliott Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On: Wednesday, July 25, 2001, 4:13:05 AM
> Re: [Miami] Re: Dialup trouble
>
>
> Hi Elliott,
>
>>>> "Your IP address could not be resolved, so Miami has to fall back to
>>>> your IP address as your host name. Either your Internet Service
>>>> Provider does not support reverse mapping of the SLIP/PPP ports,
>>>> Or there is a problem with the DNS servers."
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Miami 3.2b, and the settings haven't changed (other than the
>>>> DNS numbers and our chosen dialup username when they changed over)
>>>> since starting internet service with them.
>
>>> All you can do when you see that error message is to hang up and dial
>>> again. Been there, done that.
>
>> For this one, I don't have to redial, because AFAIK it doesn't prevent
>> from browsing and such. It's the other one where I have to redial,
>> DNS lookup.
>
> What about putting DNS server IPs into your configuration as permanent
> entries then. You won't need to discover them at connection, and if
> "discovering" them, then, was the only problem (but access to them was
> still working), then you could avoid having to redial.
In "Database/DNS servers"? I do have that set. And as I said before, this
doesn't cause me to redial, That's only when I lose the DNS services while
already browsing (anyone know whether the Windows TCP stack automatically
resets that connection while dialed up?).
> I've usually found that entering DNS server IPs as permanent settings sped
> up the connection time, too.
>
> And, perhaps, this might help with the resolution of your own address
> name? The resolution problem might simply be due to too-slow responses
> from the DNS server(s).
> Tim.
Slow? Sometimes it comes up in a couple seconds, and sometimes it takes 15+
seconds.
Elliott
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