Steve Searle wrote:
Around 03:24pm on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 (UK time), Bob Goodwin scrawled:I have a system diagram at http://users.wildblue.net/bobgoodwin/system.png. The computer I am using is labeled box1.Bob, have you tried doing a host -v command, and then disconnecting the Internet connection before repeating it. That should show conclusively if the local name server is caching but slow, or not working at all. Cheers Steve
*Yes it works with the cat5 ethernet cable pulled from the wireless bridge that is my internet source: host -a google.com Received 156 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53 in 115 ms I'm satisfied that it works, the time is greatly reduced, it's just that others report faster operation! BobG *