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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8982 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1993 comp.unix.admin:17490 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: How come named works so slow ? Message-ID: <CLxMvB.Ann@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 11:35:34 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 56 Hi, I am running FreeBSD-1.0.2, I want to use named instead of /etc/hosts for names lookup. In /etc/netstart I have uncomment the line name_server=YES, and in /etc/named.boot linked to /etc/named/named.boot, but when I boot up, it hangs during loading of mountd, sendmail, tsapd (ISODE) for 2 to 3 minutes, the same happen when I do telnet, rlogin, ftp, ping, arp, netstat etc. I wonder have I done anything wrong ? I am conneted to my dept. LAN using SLIP, and I got /etc/resolv.conf file. What basically I want to do is to assign my own machine (slip33.lat.oz.au) as the DNS master for myself, and I will also want to make use of other DNS server in my dept. LAN over slip. These are my settings for various files : ## /etc/resolve.conf domain lat.oz.au nameserver 131.172.42.233 # this is my IP address ## /etc/named.boot (linked to /etc/namedb/named.boot) sortlist 131.172.0.0 ; sortlist 128.3.0.0 directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . root.cache primary 131.172.42.233 localhost.rev ## /etc/namedb/localhost.rev slip33.lat.oz.au. IN SOA slip33.lat.oz.au. root.slip33.lat.oz.au. ( 1.4 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 300 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Minimum slip33.lat.oz.au IN NS slip33.lat.oz.au. slip33.lat.oz.au IN A 172.131.42.233 ## /etc/namedb/root.cache . IN NS SLIP33.LAT.OZ.AU. ; Prep the cache (hotwire the addresses). Order does not matter. SLIP33.LAT.OZ.AU IN A 131.172.42.233 Have I done anything wrong in the initial setting of assigning my system to be the DNS server for itself regardless other machines ? What need to be changed to make named work faster ? What happen if I am to use the nameserver in my dept. machine called latcs1.lat.oz.au ? Do I need to modify /etc/resolv.conf ? I suppose I can add it as secondary server in my named.boot file , can't I ? Many thanks in advance, and email replies please. - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au