I would be interested in others feeling/experience about the very slow resolution of browser enquiries of typical ISP - Particularly if you are in Australia. I ran some stats on my ISP's DNS servers ability to resolve enquiries - The stats were surprising in the number of re-try and Drops. My ISP is a real one and not a partition of bigpond or optusnet. This is particularly noticeable now my speed has increased to min 24000/1000kbps via a DSLAM link. For others it is interesting that Australia being so isolated; the amount of bandwidth available to get out of the country to the nearest major hub is limited and ultimate accessibility to TLD's requires an enormous amount of hops. A situation you don't every need to think about in North America or Europe. To illustrate our delima all you need to do is a traceroute on you ISP's DNS server(s) in .AU. To try to overcome the situation I have set-up my own DNS server - to make all my enquiries and rightly or wrongly I have added zones well up the TLD ladder - I'll probably get kicked off some of my zones but s far o.k (My first zone is a root server in Japan) Put simply the enquiry is Has anyone (particularly living in AU) noticed a slow response or incomplete resolution of DNS from their ISP. My apologies first and foremost for what appears to be a parochial issue. I hate being that way. Scott
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