[SLL] Slow DNS lookups

[Mike Stunes]

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domain mit.edu
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nameserver 18.70.0.160
nameserver 18.71.0.151
nameserver 18.72.0.3


Derek Simkowiak wrote:
>     Can you post your /etc/resolv.conf?
>
>     If they're publicly available, I'll switch to your DNS servers and 
> see if I can reproduce the symptoms.
>
> --Derek
>
> Mike Stunes wrote:
>> Recently I've been having an issue with name lookups, particularly 
>> from Firefox, taking much longer than they used to. Seems like it 
>> used to be pretty quick, and now navigating to a different site takes 
>> several seconds, usually about four or five. (If I remember right, 
>> this has been going on for a few days, maybe a week or so.) Once 
>> Firefox gets past "Looking up ...", however, it's a breeze. I can't 
>> figure out what might have changed that would cause this--I don't 
>> remember having done any major software updates or config changes 
>> about the time this started, and /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf look 
>> fine. Wireshark shows an interesting story-- first, an AAAA record 
>> lookup, followed by an AAAA record lookup on <domain-name> + 
>> ".mit.edu", followed by an A record lookup, which finally works. 
>> Don't know if it did that before or not. Does anyone have any idea 
>> what might be going on? Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Mike
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