On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:50:42 -0500 (CDT) I wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:20 -0500 David Carlson ><carlson...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>I am a newbie here, so perhaps this is an overly naive response to this > > All of us have been at some point. > >>subject. > > Your discussion below presents one plausible explanation. >> >>I am using Windows XP and I am behind a digital modem provided by AT&T. >> That modem is the DNS for my local network. > > Does your LAN have any non-Windows systems on it on which you might >more easily run a name server of your own? >> >>I see that message at times when I think that AT&T is re-booting that=20 >>modem (lately that is at least once a night), which would make the DNS > > Why do you think that is happening? Does it have a column of lights >that show a distinct pattern when the modem is reinitializing itself? > >>un-available for a short time. > I see I thoroughly garbled the following sentence (aarrghh...).
> Another possibility is that the other end of the connection is on >an ISP subnet that is momentarily flooded with traffic, resulting in your >LAN's queries or the ISP's name server's responses from completing their ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That should read, "failing to complete". Apologies for the noise. >trips before the timeout period expires. The default timeout period for >DNS queries these days is normally only 3 s. >> >>I am sure there are other possible causes, but when this is suspected, I >> >>would just let the notes fill up the log. >> > It's certainly worth further investigation. A phone call to the ISP >to find out what its policies and practices are about daily reboots and >so on might be well worth your time. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/