Re: [vox-tech] On my boxes, Windows is outperforming Debian innetwork speed

["Mark K. Kim" <lugMAPSod@cbreak.org>]

Don't put 127.0.0.1 as any of the name servers.  Your problem probably has
to do with something else.  Please tell us more about the symptoms.

-Mark


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Issac Trotts wrote:

> On my laptop, the networking is noticably faster when I boot in Windows
> (XP).  It is a shameful situation.  The networking is also painfully
> slow on my Debian desktop computer.  Both are connected to a Netgear
> wireless router, one by wire and the other by wifi.
>
> On the desktop computer I have improved the speed in the past by messing
> around with some name server caching stuff, but now it's back to being
> slow for some reason.  I have bind installed, and my /etc/resolv.conf
> looks like this:
>
>     search
>     nameserver 127.0.0.1
>     nameserver 63.217.0.5
>     nameserver 63.216.0.6
>
> I inserted the 127.0.0.1 by hand and ran /etc/init.d/bind restart but it
> didn't help noticably.  Not sure if it the line in resolv.conf will get
> automatically removed when I reboot...
>
> There's some program that tells you which nameserver is being used to
> resolve names, but I don't remember its name right now.
>
> Any assistance would be much appreciated.
>
> Issac
>
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> University of California, Davis
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