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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:51:06 +0100 "David Brook" <David.Brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Don't suppose you have clashing IP addresses?? Could be one or other is > getting DHCP address whilst the other has a fixed IP address ? > > > I had a load of extremely odd occurrences which suddenly started about 5 > months ago for no reason (our network had been running perfectly for > years) - internet connection failures, failures to resolve internet > addresses, EXTREMELY slow name resolution etc. Spent ages trying to track > down the error and was beginning to suspect an intermittent hardware > failure. But following advice from here, I commented out the 'Forwarders' > section of my DNS config file. I'm still not really sure why this helped > with some of the more esoteric failures, but it certainly did and > subsequently everything has been fine. > > Anyway, might be worth a look. > > > Cheers > > david Sounds like something I could look at. I have recently set up a website of my own and I am having trouble with accessing it sometimes. It works fine for a while and then it becomes so slow that it times out. Not being very knowledgeable about all this, I don't know where to find my dns config file. I will go on searching, but meanwhile can anyone help me to find it please? Thanks Neil > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil Winchurst" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:10 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Ethernet?? > > > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:02:10 +0100 > > Paul Clark <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> > But what mainly puzzles me is that everything worked fine for the first > >> > three months....[snip] > >> > >> I've hit problems with D-Link routers before where their DNS cache fills > >> up and they then go sulky and need a reboot. The solution is to turn > >> off DNS relay on the router and either put a real DNS server (from your > >> ISP) in your /etc/resolv.conf, or (better) install bind and run a DNS > >> cache locally. > >> > >> [On Debian, 'apt-get install bind9' and remove any 'nameserver' lines in > >> /etc/resolv.conf] > >> > >> Not sure if this explains your Mandriva problems, though - never used it! > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Paul > >> > > Not sure that I understand all that. Perhaps I should mention that my > > wife has a laptop computer (Windows XP, sorry about that) and she uses > > my router (wireless) from another rooom. She has not had any problems > > at all. > > Neil > > > >> > >> -- > >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html