On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 08:09, Bob Goodwin wrote: > John Miller wrote: > > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> ;; Query time: 58 msec > >> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) > >> ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 22 08:21:44 2006 > >> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 212 > >> > >> However, I never see single digit delays! > >> > > This isn't going to help much, except as another data point, but I tried > > 'dig google.com' just out of curiosity. The first response took 66 > > msec; here's the second: > > > > ;; Query time: 2 msec > > ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) > > ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 22 08:52:20 2006 > > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 212 > > > > My machine is nothing special (Athlon 1<>2 GHz). > > > *Yes, I considered that it might be this ancient box, but it can ping > itself in less than 100µs! > > I intend to try it on one of the faster computers I have but this is > my primary box. An old Pentium III 450 mHz w/~400 megs of RAM. And > this is the one I am most interested in, everything I do seems to be > done here. So maybe single digit times are out of the question? I get 3 msec on a dual PII 450 on the 2nd query for www.google.com: ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost) ;; WHEN: Tue Aug 22 08:37:06 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 180 -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
