Re: DNS Problems

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From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:31:40 -0400

In news:84E88FFF-EB00-4F5E-881C-1B8212C2DE28@microsoft.com,
John in <John@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their thoughts, then I
offered mine
> Thanks, I'll give that a try. Now it we can send/receive emails from
> the client pcs. We are also able to get to external web sites but not
> very regularly. When we do get a connection, it appears to take some
> time for the site to load. Any ideas as to why the dns lookups for
> external sites may be taking so long?
>
> Thanks
>

John, you didn't reply if your clients can ping by name successfully.
Curious what the reply times are in a ping. Ping www.yahoo.com or
www.macromedia.com and let us know what the response times are.

Also, what DNS are you using for a forwarder?

What kind of line do you have? ADSL, SDSL or T1? 

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