On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a problem with delays in DNS lookup. > > I have a closed network with a windows2003 nameserver (xxx.yy.16.12) and > have tried to setup a slaveserver (xxx.yy.16.15) on my FC3 server. > > If a have my slaveserver in /etc/resolv.conf i get problems with delays. > > If I do "ftp machine" i get a ~10 seconds delay before getting prompt > from the ftp-server. > If I do "ftp machine.mydomain.se" i get prompt instantly. Same for ssh/telnet/rsh. Solved this by myself (at least it is working for me) added zone "." to /etc/named.conf and commented all root-servers in /var/named/named.ca zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; Regards -- Karl-Olov Serrander kase@xxxxxxxx