Hello... Here is the details of my network.
External: 100MB connection to our ISP who is providing our primary dns services linux 6.2 firewall gateway (PIII - 600MHz cpu with 128MB ram, 30GB hHD) running qmail Internal: dlink 10/100 24 port switch 20 win9x desktop machines (various hardware config's) running DHCP 1 PIII 400 with 128MB ram PDC, WINS, etc Please let me know if you need more detail Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze machines to linux firewall (gateway) > Can you give us a detailed description of what your network looks like, > along with some network hardware descriptions? > > -- Jonathan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Caskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:14 PM > Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze > machines to linux firewall (gateway) > > > > Hello... > > > > Well, except the internal network is the only slow section with > > smtp,pop3,ftp, etc From the outside world pop3, http, etc are fine? > > > > Still Puzzled > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:41 PM > > Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze > > machines to linux firewall (gateway) > > > > > > > Could it have been a network issue on your ISP's side? > > > -- Jonathan > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Greg Caskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:15 PM > > > Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze > > > machines to linux firewall (gateway) > > > > > > > > > > Puzzling Question.... > > > > > > > > I have not had a chance to implement this fix to the caching DNS > server, > > > > however Now our connection speed is no longer slow. I can get email, > > > > telnet, etc at regular speed? I have not updated any changes on my > side > > > so > > > > I am wondering? > > > > > > > > Do you have anything that I can look at to see what is changing? DNS > > > route > > > > and Netstat -a runs fine, nslookup on my 10.0.0.1 is still not getting > > > > resolved as my ISP (of course) does not know about it but the network > > > > resolves quickly. > > > > > > > > Stumped? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Emmanuel Seyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:13 AM > > > > Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze > > > > machines to linux firewall (gateway) > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:48:54AM -0700, Greg Caskey wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. The 2nd NIC's IP address is 10.0.0.1 for the internal machines. > > > > Would my > > > > > > named.conf look like this: > > > > > > > > > > > > options { > > > > > > directory "/var/named"; > > > > > > }; > > > > > > > > > > Make it this: > > > > > > > > > > options { > > > > > directory "/var/named"; > > > > > forwarders { ISP backup 1 IP; ISP backup 2 IP; }; > > > > > forward only; > > > > > listen-on { 10.0.0.1; }; > > > > > }; > > > > > > > > > > > Or should it be for 10.0.0.1 instead of 127.0.0.1? > > > > > > > > > > Nope. All DNS servers are masters for 127.0.0 since 127.0.0.1 > > > > > always points to the local machine. > > > > > > > > > > > 2. The /etc/resolv.conf file should be as follows with my server > as > > > the > > > > > > caching server? > > > > > > > > > > Brillant. > > > > > > > > > > > Is there anything else I need to setup? > > > > > > > > > > You'll need the /var/named/named.local file specified in named.conf > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list