caching-namserver

[Bob Goodwin]

Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 03:24pm on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 (UK time), Bob Goodwin scrawled:
>
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>> I have a system diagram at 
>> http://users.wildblue.net/bobgoodwin/system.png. 
>> The computer I am using is labeled box1.
>>     
>
> Bob, have you tried doing a host -v command, and then disconnecting the
> Internet connection before repeating it.  That should show conclusively
> if the local name server is caching but slow, or not working at all.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>   
*Yes it works with the cat5 ethernet cable pulled from the
wireless bridge that is my internet source:

host -a google.com

Received 156 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 115 ms

I'm satisfied that it works, the time is greatly reduced,
it's just that others report faster operation!

BobG


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