[ale] DHCP name resolution REAL sloooooow.....

[Courtney Thomas]

James,

See the attachments for answers to your questions, please.

I am using the nameservers you suggested and they don't seem to make
much difference vis-a-vis the bellsouth ones.

What I'm noticing is that the URL numeric address is usually immediately 
found but then there is often a LOOOOOONG pause before any activity.

All slots on this machine are used so I'm forced to use an old external 
parallel port NIC [module de620] that is possibly the problem, though it 
does work. When I "networking restart" that'll sometimes stimulate it 
into action. I'm also using "pump -i eth0" to initiate DHCP, if it's of 
consequence.

Thank you, as always, for your advice,

Courtney

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>Courtney,
>
>What IP address are you getting and what is your gateway address?
>
>ifconfig eth0 or ppp0
>netstat -rn
>
>The nameserver IPs below are quite unusual as they are private IP
>addresses.
>
>Try these instead:
>
>   nameserver 4.2.2.4
>   nameserver 4.2.2.3
>
>On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:55 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>  
>
>>Randal,
>>
>>Thank you for your response.
>>
>>I include, as attachment, a copy of the resolv.conf that results from 
>>using BellSouth DSL.
>>
>>Cordially,
>>Courtney
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>plain text document attachment (resolv.conf)
>>search launchmodem.com
>>nameserver 192.168.1.254
>>nameserver 192.168.1.254
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