For anyone who is experiencing slow DNS lookups...

I finally worked out what was wrong with my network config last night and thought I'd share it with everyone in a simgle post in the hope it'll help someone else.
I tried the BIND work around, but it wasn't all that much faster.
I tried disabling IPv6, but that didn't do much...
The solution?
In 'System Preferences' -> 'Network'
Go to configure the adaptor (Airport / Ethernet / etc)
In 'DNS Servers' where you'd normally specify the DNS servers given to you by your ISP... don't do this! As crazy as it sounds don't
Of course, if you're using newer routers you'd not be having this slow DNS lookup problem and specifying the ISPs DNS Servers would be appropriate... still
What you want to specify here is your ROUTER's IP:
eg. 192.168.0.1
With this simple modifcation you'll be fine. Why? You ask?
In Linux / OSX (I imagine in Unix as well) the way the lookups are carried out are different from Windows. I have other Windows computers on our network and they never had DNS lookup problems and they've been given the ISPs DNS IPs... anyway I think I'm talking out of my depth now heh.
This works!
Remember: Specify your router as the DNS Server!

I've had this problem on a G4 PowerMac running Panther, and it still had it after a Tiger upgrade. I just replaced it with a Core Duo MacMini, 10.4.7, same problem of slow DNS lookups (i.e., slow initial start to loading a web page, then it goes quickly). Windows machines on the same subnet have no such problem. I've tried the various suggestions on various forums, none of which worked. I tried:
- turn off IPv6 (no help)
- directly enter my ISPs DNS servers (no help)
- manually configure both IP and DNS (no help, went back to DHCP)
- swear at the computer (a little help, mentally)
After some more reading, I tried resolving some addresses using the host command from the Terminal:
host -v www.apple.com 24.34.240.9
where the IP address is one of the DNS servers for my ISP (Comcast). I got a no server found message! I then tried the second DNS server in the Comcast list (found from my router), also no server found. Tried the third one in Comcast's list of DNS servers, and it worked. Entered it in System Preferences -> Network as a DNS server, and now web browsing is zippy! I verified that the two DNS servers that MacOS couldn't see are also down as far as Windows was concerned (using the nslookup command in windows).
What this tells me is that the OS X algorithm for handling unreachable or slow DNS servers is different from that in Windows. Maybe Windows remembers a bad experience with a DNS server and uses ones that it has success with, while OS X just keeps trying them in order, slowing timing them out until it finds one that works?
This could also explain many of the puzzling symptoms people have been seeing (things work some times, other times not; some people have luck specifying the DNS server manually, others don't). It all depends on what DNS servers got distributed to the Mac via DHCP, and how far down the list you have to go to find one that is responsive.
Anyone reading this forum with technical knowledge of both UNIX and Windows DNS lookup implementations? Is there some way to tweak in MacOS to make it perform more like Windows in this situation (like, maybe shortening the DNS server failure timeout)?

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Wireless Intermittent Super Slow DNS lookup bug in 10.6.4

I don't normally post things on forums these days, as usually I can find just about any solution by searching long enough, but this issue has perplexed me to the point I actually had to come on here.
Believe me, that's a big deal, I don't give up easily.
I have spent -countless- hours searching, on here, on google, on any "solutions" or "technical" sites I could find, and the closest I can find to a solution are countless people complaining about the EXACT SAME PROBLEM that I have observed and, repeatedly, reproduced again and again, which in every single case boil down to this:
You had 10.6.x (x being 3 or less) with a wireless connection on your home network and all is well.
You upgraded to 10.6.4 and all seemed fine for maybe 24 hours or so... then it happens. You go to load a website, and it's "looking for site" or "waiting for site" in your status bar... hmm, maybe it's just this site you say, so you try another, or a few others in other tabs, but they all have the same problem.
You try to ping the sites, but the network utility can't resolve the domain to even ping them.
Your roommate, all the while, is surfing and gaming just fine on the exact same router you are on, so no, it's not the network hardware, it's not your ISP, hmm, what could it be?
All of a sudden, ALL of the sites you had in like 20 tabs load up at screaming speeds, "WOW" you say, "guess there must have just been some gunk in the wires or something" (notice the irony of the situation: no wires)... anyway, all seems fine again suddenly, surfing is fine for a few minutes, you're back to normal... and it happens again, suddenly NO site will resolve, NO dns will resolve, you can't check email or ping any domain... and so the cycle begins. Of course, you can just plug an ethernet cable straight into the router, but doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having wireless networking in the first place?
It continues like this, indefinitely, and it all starts roughly 24 hours after 10.6.4 has been installed.
I have read reports of people on macbooks, people on imacs, people on all sorts of different wireless hardware, but the symptoms are the same.
I know the problem is with the OS update, it's purely software. I know that it has nothing to do with hardware because simply reverting to 10.6.3 solves the problem -every single time- and then "upgrading" to 10.6.4 causes the problem to come back within 24 hours -every single time- (have been reverting using Time Machine to simplify this testing process), so no, where the problem is isn't what perplexes me; what perplexes me is that there are posts that started almost a few days after 10.6.4 came out, and so far there's STILL no fix? Are you freaking serious? Does the Apple programming team not have access to anything other than Apple-Branded Airport Extreme Base Stations to perform wireless network QA testing on?
Get a Linksys guys, grab a D-Link, go get some of the hardware people actually USE and test it on that and see what happens, it doesn't take long to see what's happening.
I blame the programmers because I am one myself and know how easy it is to screw up a rock-solid system with one little typo. Heck, which patch was it, 10.5.7 or 10.5.8 I think? Can't remember exactly, but it was supposed to be such a great "bug fix" patch... and it came with the config file for Apache set to DENY ALL INCOMING EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS by default (in a hidden file that can only be modified by the root user mind you... so much for the average user running a personal web server on THAT version), so yeah, one tiny mistake and it has huge consequences, my question is: what's taking so long to track down what's going on in 10.6.4 and fix it? Can we at least get a patch or something?
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C. is 100% repeatedly reproducible
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http://img545.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20100913at114.png/
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Network Setting Status
LAN                  IP :
192.168.1.1
WAN1 IP :
69.113.140.xxx
WAN2 IP :
0.0.0.0
Mode :
Gateway
DNS (WAN1) :
DNS (WAN2) :
167.206.254.2      167.206.254.1
DDNS(WAN1   |   WAN2)                 :
Off       |       Off
DMZ                  Host :
Disabled
DNS
DNS Server                    (Required) 1:
2:

[SOLVED] Slow DNS lookup, I think

Hi
I have a really annoying problem. My DNS lookup in Arch is painfully slow. I know it's not a network problem, as I don't have any problems in my Ubuntu installation. I have tried to run two simple tests to show you what I mean. The first is a simple ping google.
########### Ubuntu ###########
carsten@carsten-laptop:~$ time ping -c 3 www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (216.239.61.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=17.4 ms
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=20.6 ms
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=11.4 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 11.465/16.529/20.641/3.809 ms
real 0m2.290s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
########### Arch ###########
carsten ~/Desktop $ time ping -c 3 www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (216.239.61.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=12.3 ms
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=10.7 ms
64 bytes from sn-in-f104.google.com (216.239.61.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=12.4 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.776/11.867/12.476/0.778 ms
real 0m15.305s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m0.007s
Ubuntu: 0m2.290s vs. Arch: 0m15.305s.
In the second test I tried to fake a pacman update by downloading the .db files from my primary server. On both Ubuntu and Arch I used this simple script
repos=( core extra community )
time for repo in ${repos[@]}
do
wget http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686/$repo.db.tar.gz
done
When I run it in, I get this result
########### Ubuntu ###########
carsten@carsten-laptop:~/Desktop$ ./updatetest
--2008-11-10 07:58:23-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32515 (32K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `core.db.tar.gz'
100%[=============================================================>] 32.515 --.-K/s in 0,1s
2008-11-10 07:58:23 (331 KB/s) - `core.db.tar.gz' saved [32515/32515]
--2008-11-10 07:58:23-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 422622 (413K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `extra.db.tar.gz'
100%[=============================================================>] 422.622 242K/s in 1,7s
2008-11-10 07:58:25 (242 KB/s) - `extra.db.tar.gz' saved [422622/422622]
--2008-11-10 07:58:25-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/community/os/i686/community.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 369845 (361K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `community.db.tar.gz'
100%[=============================================================>] 369.845 206K/s in 1,8s
2008-11-10 07:58:27 (206 KB/s) - `community.db.tar.gz' saved [369845/369845]
real 0m3.837s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.036s
########### Arch ###########
carsten ~/Desktop $ ./updatetest
--2008-11-10 08:01:33-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32515 (32K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `core.db.tar.gz'
100%[==============================================================================>] 32,515 --.-K/s in 0.1s
2008-11-10 08:01:47 (303 KB/s) - `core.db.tar.gz' saved [32515/32515]
--2008-11-10 08:01:47-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 422622 (413K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `extra.db.tar.gz'
100%[==============================================================================>] 422,622 253K/s in 1.6s
2008-11-10 08:02:02 (253 KB/s) - `extra.db.tar.gz' saved [422622/422622]
--2008-11-10 08:02:02-- http://archlinux.unixheads.org/community/os/i686/community.db.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.unixheads.org... 204.152.186.174
Connecting to archlinux.unixheads.org|204.152.186.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 369845 (361K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `community.db.tar.gz'
100%[==============================================================================>] 369,845 262K/s in 1.4s
2008-11-10 08:02:17 (262 KB/s) - `community.db.tar.gz' saved [369845/369845]
real 0m44.153s
user 0m0.047s
sys 0m0.017s
Ubuntu: 0m3.837s vs. Arch: 0m44.153s
I get the same update time whenever I update pacman normally.
I have googled a lot to figure out an answer, but nothing helps, so I was hoping somebody could help me figure this out, as it's very annoying. My hosts file looks like this
hosts:
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost arch
# End of file
rc.conf:
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Asia/Singapore"
KEYMAP="dk"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
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# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(e100 mii iwl3945 fuse acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave loop !pcspkr !snd_pcsp)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="arch"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
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eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
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# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
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# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network hal !netfs crond fam wicd cups laptop-mode oss gdm)
SPLASH="splashy"
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Sharpeee (2008-11-15 10:39:42)

Just tried to remove the "search..." line from my /etc/resolv.conf file, but nothing! It's okay if I remove the line after it connects right? Wicd overwrites the file anyways if I reconnect.
I don't really think changing to a different network-manager will help me. It works perfectly fine in Ubuntu with both network-manager and wicd, do don't think that's the problem. It must be a configuration file somewhere.
#### EDIT ####
I just tried to disable wicd and enable the wired network in /etc/rc.conf. After a reboot and it's still the same, even on the wired, so it's got be some other settings somewhere that's messing things up!
Also, for some reason my theme, in Gnome, isn't loaded after I disabled wicd? I have to manually run "gnome-appearance-manager"??
Last edited by Sharpeee (2008-11-11 05:01:46)

Slow DNS Lookups after connecting via PPP VPN

I have this very annoying problem and just can't seem to find a method to resolve it.
When I connect to my work network via a PPP VPN connection, all internet connectivity thereafter takes forever to do a DNS lookup. So when I browse the internet it takes ages before the page is displayed back.
If I also do a ping in finder for a random URL, www.google.com for example, it sits there for nearly a minute before I get a response. If I then immediately perform the ping again, I get a response straight away. So it seems once it's resolved the domain name, it gets stored in a cache somewhere. If I try another domain name, I get the same delay and then it eventually gets through.
As soon as I close the VPN connection, service is resumed and DNS lookups work fast.
I've also made sure I've unchecked the option to "Send all traffic over VPN connection".
I've also set my 'Service Order' to have my wireless Airport connection in the No #1 position.
The other thing I've tried is deleting the default route (via Terminal) and adding one manually that points to my wireless router, again without success.
Does anyone have any other ideas I could try? I've also recently re-installed a fresh copy of Leopard in case something was stuffed up, but the problem is still there after installation.
Hoping someone has an easy solution!
Many thanks

I seem to have found a work-around. There is probably a neater way of doing this but here goes.
Here is my setup:
Airport Wireless to my home router
PPP VPN connection to my office windows network
3G connection via mobile phone
My aim was to be able to connect to my office network via wireless at home or via my cellular data connection, but continue to route all non-work traffic via the main connection (wireless/3G).
The #1 problem I had once I connected to my office VPN on either wireless or 3G, was that DNS lookups to general internet sites took forever. So to get around this, I created TWO VPN connections to my office network in Network Preferences and in both connections I made sure the option to send all traffic over VPN was left UNCHECKED.
The first connection I then designated for use when connecting wirelessly at home. Here I manually added the IP address of my home router as a DNS entry.
The second connection I did the same by adding a new DNS entry, except here I used the DNS server of my cellular data connection, in this case T-Mobile UK.
When connecting to my office network I just use either of the above connections depending on whether I am connecting wirelessly at home or via my mobile phone.
It seems a bit long winded I grant you, but after literally months of trying to resolve this annoying problem, this appears to be the only fix that works.
The downfall of this would be that DNS resolution to any servers on your office network might not work, but that isn't a problem for me since I manually add any servers I use at work to my local hosts file. This negates any need for DNS lookups and actually speeds up access to my work servers.
In amongst this I did several reboots, so you give your machine a reboot once you've completed the above steps, just in case.
The 3G connection won't work for you if your provider changes the DNS server every time you connect, but this is unlikely.
If anyone's got any comments, I'd love to hear them.
Cheers
Phil

Issue with very slow DNS lookup. SBS 2008 R2.

(Preface: sorry if this is the wrong forum...new at this! X-posted from Reddit)
I'm stumped with this one. Last week, the server installed a few updates, no problem, a handful of security stuff. Since then, I've been having issues with DNS lookups on every computer on the network. It will hang on "looking up <domain>.com..."
and then after 20-30 seconds, it will show a "can't find the server" error. BUT THEN! When you click try again, it loads right up. And then it works fine. For a day or so. Then, the next day, or maybe just a few hours later, sometimes while browsing
the same site, it will do the same thing. It's like the DNS server just forgets the lookups it's already done after a time.
Things I've tried:
restarting server (duh)
rolling back updates
reinstalling said updates
restarting all network hardware from the gateway outwards
restarting the service itself while the server is running
The only thing the event log shows is a single error during startup - event ID 4015. The text reads:
"The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is ' '."
This error has only occurred once that I saw and did not occur on the most recent startup, but the issue is still present
Active directory seems to be fine. No errors or warnings in it and no info from the event log is showing anything that seems to be helpful.
I've looked around the KB but every article seems to be troubleshooting a much more specific problem or a different problem altogether, such as a misnamed, stuck, or incorrect DNS zone, or a DNS lookup that fails to complete altogether.

Hi Craigglesofdoom,
Would you please let us know current situation of this issue? Did you refer to above suggestions and solve this problem? If any update, please feel free to let us know.
Please also run SBS BPA tool and check if find relevant issues.
For Event ID 4015, please refer to following article and check if can help you.
Event ID 4015 — DNS Server Active Directory Integration
-->The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly.
Please use dcdiag command-line tool. Any find?
Domain Controller Diagnostics Tool (dcdiag.exe)
Dcdiag for DNS: Test details explained
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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