[Eug-lug] Setting up DNS

Garl Grigsby badd_karma at comcast.net
Mon Aug 23 08:54:43 PDT 2004


Bob Miller wrote:

>Garl Grigsby wrote:
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>>DNS request timed out.
>>   timeout was 2 seconds.
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>That's too short.  Try 10-20 seconds.
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>(Sorry, I don't know how to tune that using BIND.)
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Sorry, I guess I didn't make it clear, but I think the timeout is on the 
windows side, which is where people are doing their web browsing.  When 
I use dig on the server I don't see the timeout, it just takes a while. 
In fact I don't know if dig will ever time out.

Garl


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