lookup time

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Wed Jul 21 16:53:27 UTC 1999


Ingo Luetkebohle <ingo at devconsult.de> writes:

> what could be the cause for DNS timeouts taking very long (e.g., five
> seconds or more)?

How many servers are defined for the system? The default timeout for
each is 4 usually seconds. If you have 3 servers defined, this will
mean 12 seconds for the timeout.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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