Re: dns slowdown blue G3/8.6

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00

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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> Andrew Kearney <andrew@diverge.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have been experiencing some strange problems with my connection for
> > the last couple of days. All name lookups seem to take ages
[]
> Only when I got the router or name-server addresses wrong.
> Assuming you haven't changed anything like that recently,
> is it just DNS lookups that're slow, or is it everything ?
> 
> What might have happened is that your Hosts file got
> corrupted.  Before connecting, find the file 'MacTCP DNR'
> in your system folder and trash it.  If that doesn't help,
> make a new setup for your TCP/IP control panel -- type in
> the details from scratch.

FWIW, Demon's DNSs have been playing up the last couple of days[0], and
whilst my Mac was OK ('cos it uses), Named on my Linux box got horribly
confused and had to be restarted.

rgds, Alan
[0] finger status@gate.demon.co.uk
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