More on last subject

[Julian Field]

At 15:50 18/04/2002, you wrote:
>Would installing named on the machine and pointing its dns to itself help
>any ya think?

It can't do any harm. Make sure that the named is responding really quickly
(test it with dig or nslookup).

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kelly Hamlin" <fizz at BOMB.NET>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:34 AM
>Subject: Re: More on last subject
>
>
> > definatly see an improvement...
> >
> > now. what if anything can i do to help dns speed...
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: More on last subject
> >
> >
> > > At 20:14 16/04/2002, you wrote:
> > > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4SC01027/
> > > >-rw-------    1 root     root          886 Apr 16 13:56
> > g3GI4SC01027.header
> > > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4TC01029/
> > > >-rw-------    1 root     root          594 Apr 16 13:56
> > g3GI4TC01029.header
> > > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4UC01031/
> > > >-rw-------    1 root     root          831 Apr 16 13:56
> > g3GI4UC01031.header
> > > >
> > > >notice how they are 7 minutes apart?
> > > >any clues would be great :)
> > >
> > > I would suspect that your DNS lookups are running slowly. Try switching
> > off
> > > the spam detection altogether and see if that cures the problem. If it
> > > does, then it's definitely a DNS speed problem.
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >
> >

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ