[Eug-lug] dns (?) problems

[Bob Miller]

Matthew Jarvis wrote:

> On an otherwise reasonably functional network, I see that sometimes I
> can get out on the net, other times not, and sometimes it's fine one
> minute then almost instantly - poof - nadda...

Do you have a caching DNS server in the building?  (If not, why not?
(-: )

You can use mtr to see how far packets are getting.  Leave it running
for a few minutes and look for the nearest hop where the packet loss
rate is high.  That'll give you an idea where the problem is.

    # mtr www.google.com

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