On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:29:44AM +0200, Thomas Feddersen wrote:
> 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 over
> >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?

named in inclued with the base system; the default config should be close to
give you a working caching nameserver.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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