Steve Spesard
Bill Fisher wrote:
> I have been battling this same problem except I use Metainfo's DNS
> 2.5.
> If I use NSLooup and try to bring up any domain from that DNS server
> I
> get timeouts or long pauses.
>
> I found one thing that I was doing wrong according to the DNS & Bind
> book. I had multiple "A" records pointed to the same IP. I have
> taken
> those records out and made one "A" record pointing to the IP and
> "CNAME" records pointing to the "A" record. This seems to helped, but
>
> I'm still having the problems. If anyone could shed some light on
> either of these problems it would be much appreciated.
>
> Bill Fisher
> dns1.excelsoft.com
>
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> > From: Beverly Wise <bev@hyper-drive.com>
> > To: NTISP <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
> > Subject: Problem with DNS stopping randomly.
> > Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 12:59 PM
> >
> > We are having a problem with DNS randomly pausing then resuming.
> The
> > service is not stopping, it is just pausing, for about 30 seconds
> all
> the
> > way to 5 minutes, there are also no error messages in the event
> viewer.
> > Also, when this happens, there are no alarms or errors on any of our
>
> > hardware. Sometimes I can't even ping the IP of our mainserver when
>
> I am
> > sitting at it doing the pinging.
> >
> > We are running Microsoft DNS on a Pentium II 233 with 128 M of RAM,
> other
> > hardware includes a Computone Intelliserver PowerRack, a Cisco 1601
> Router
> > and an Adtran TSU/LT (CSU/DSU) If anyone has experienced this, or
> has a
> > possible solution please let me know.
> >
> > Beverly L. Wise
> > Systems Operator
> > Falls City Net Services
> > http://www.fallscity.net
> >
> >
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