On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:52:41AM -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:
DNS lookups completed 1202826251.058136 0.072268
But now when there is a problem reaching the DNS server (I have two in /etc/resolv.conf) it spikes up to...
DNS lookups completed 1202825989.913910 40.001908
Is there any way to set the DNS resolution timeout to something smaller? Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and having it hold cache locally?
Hobbit does have a tendency of hitting DNS servers pretty hard. I would definitely recommend using a local caching DNS server on your Hobbit box. It is dead simple to setup, and it makes DNS lookups a lot faster and more reliable.
As far as the timeouts are concerned, the bbtest-net(1) man-page lists this option:
--dns-timeout=N (default: 30 seconds)This assumes you're using Hobbit's built-in resolver library, C-ARES. If you're running bbtest-net with the --no-ares option, there is no way Hobbit can control the DNS lookup settings.
Regards, Henrik