Interesting thing with DNS requests

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Dec 6 23:31:54 GMT 2006


Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>I thought there must be something quite wrong somewere, so I started to
> watch the IO traffic through eth0 using wireshark. And the result was
> very different on the DNS requests, the HTTP was about the same.
>
>konqueror:	656 DNS packets 		479 HTTP packets
>Firefox:		42 DNS packets		442 HTTP packets
>
>I dont know if I have set up something in a wrong way (upgraded from
> Dapper) or if I dont understand the info I retrived.
>
>Oh and I have keep cache in sync setting in both browsers
>
>The wireshark captures are here:
> http://mumme.se/wireshark_capture.tar.gz
>
>Can anybody else confirm/not confirm the above? I don't want to  post a
> bug ticket if the error is my side.

Don't post a bug ticket about DNS problems there because I won't do 
anything about it. It's not a bug. DNS servers are supposed to reply 
fast. 

If you don't have a fast DNS server available, install a caching 
nameserver like nscd.

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