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my experience, observations
Authored by: mwhybark on Nov 20, '02 03:05:43PM
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@199.0u0GasdneHQ.4@.3bba5ca7/30

this thread contains my experiences with this bug. In essence, counterituitively, I found that adding more DNS increased the nonresponsive lookupd bug, because according to research in the thread cited, under certain circumstances, Apple's lookupd times out and then stops working.

By adding DNS I increased the chances for this event to occur, since each additional DNS was further, physically and by latency, from my IP address.

Copious details in the thread.

Cache flushing and lookupd restarts are what I was using to manage the problem previuosly; once I started using a short list of non-error producing DNS I have not experienced the problem.

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mad props
Authored by: harveyswik on Nov 21, '02 03:08:39PM

I went through and tested each DNS server in my list individually(one wasn't working at all) and my problems have ceased. Thanks!



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