Re: [nsp] Slow access to one particular web site

From: Wayne Bouchard (web@typo.org)
Date: Wed Aug 05 1998 - 16:34:51 EDT


Yes.. many servers (IMO brain dead servers) won't feed pages or won't
feed them well to sites with no name service.

> >> Access to the web site of our parent corporation (www.inmrk.com) is
> >> inordinately slow.
> >...
> >> - The first thought I had on this was that it was DNS related. And as it
> >> turns out, no host or router in our network can do a reverse lookup of the
> >> server's ip address (204.141.231.22; result is "server failed.")
> >
> >Yup, you have big DNS problems. There are *no* authoritative name servers
> >for inmrk.com or 231.141.204.in-addr.arpa. With a DNS set that screwed
> >up, I'm not particularly surprised at your observations.
>
> Do you think the lack of reverse DNS explains the slowness in receiving
> pages? I thought it might, but wasn't able to prove it.
>
> thanks!
>
> --Steve
>
>
>

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