I am in the process of upgrading my web/mail/proxy/etc server from a Deskpro PII/450 (named hermes) to a Netvista PIII/600 (named athena). I am doing the transition gradually, by slowly moving the services over time. Both machines run Debian testing+unstable. Both machines are connected to the DSL switch (network 10.10.0.x) and to the internal gigabit switch (network 10.0.0.x). My problem is with the DNS server: right now both machines run bind (bind9 9.3.1-2.0.1), with the same db.* except for the appropriate records (each server thinks it is the authoritative server for both 10.0.0.x and 10.10.0.x). Both servers forward requests to the same pair of DNS servers at the ISP (visi). When I set the proxy server (squid 2.5.12-4) running on athena to use the DNS server running on athena, I get 10-15 seconds delay in the web browser. Watching the access.log, there is no entry for the URL I have just requested. The URL will show after 10-15 seconds. If I change the resolv.conf on athena to point to hermes, there is no delay, and everyting is fast as expected. Only when athena is using the local server, I can see the delay. The delay is there even if the DNS server on hermes is down (no competition). Both servers are unloaded, have 512 MB RAM, run Shorewall... They are configured quite identical. Does anybody have any idea what is going on or what should I do to try to isolate the problem? Thank you, florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060213/19134753/attachment.pgp