[TriLUG] DNS

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:04, STaylor at srspos.com wrote:
> Okay, sorry about the message. I moved back to notes rich text format.
> That should get rid of the html appendages.
> 
> 
> I am trying to ping the other machine on my local network by name. It is
> the machine that is actually running named.
> 
> When I try to resolve an internet host name I get a response immediately.
> When I use dig to resolve an internal hostname I have no problem.
> It comes back with the name to IP resolution in a reasonable amount of
> time.
> When I use dig to resolve an external hostname I have no problem.
> It comes back with the name to IP resolution in a reasonable amount of
> time.
> 
> However when I try to use a hostname in an application or even try to ping
> catbert.cubeville.com it takes about 10 seconds to get a response and each
> response after takes another 10 seconds.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shawn

Hmmm, Check for a routing problem:
  netstat -nr

If you have multiple interfaces defined, you might have a default route
for your internal traffic that is failing and then falling back to a
secondary.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes