Am 07.10.2006, 17:10 Uhr, schrieb Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>=
:


> Can you properly ping the box ? open a ssh connection ? resolve  =

> hostnames ?
>
> To me it looks like a DNS issue: while you're running the transfers ov=
er
> the DSL line it's overloaded, and DNS queries can take a long time.
> The solution would be to run a caching nameserver locally.
>

Yes, I can ping the server and open a ssh connection using its IP-number=
.  =

My little LAN (one private subnet, less than eight computers) has no DNS=
  =

service, the router (which hosts the DHCP service) only forwards  =

DNS-queries to the InternetServiceProvider.

Thanks for your advice, I'd like to try it. Can you please recommend a  =

suitable software /package?

Kind Regards
Thomas