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| reply to chuckkk Re: [GA] Mid GA Slow DNS service.
said by chuckkk : DNS service has started to "time out" more and more frequently, causing browser "not found" errors for those addresses and web pages not cached. are you actually testing DNS or is this just the browser producing a "time out" message
If it is the latter, then there could be any number of issues - to include DNS timeouts but to be sure you need to isolate your test
I just checked the primary nameserver for Macon and got 134ms on an uncached query
bbeesley@deep-thought:~$ dig @68.1.18.237 www.regularthinking.com
;; Query time: 134 msec ;; SERVER: 68.1.18.237#53(68.1.18.237) ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 20 12:59:23 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 133
When I tried the query a second time, it pulled in 68ms
bbeesley@deep-thought:~$ dig @68.1.18.237 www.regularthinking.com ;; Query time: 68 msec ;; SERVER: 68.1.18.237#53(68.1.18.237) ;; WHEN: Mon Jul 20 13:01:01 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 133
and this is from Las Vegas so from what I can see, the nameserver is responding quite quickly on both non-authoritative and cached lookups....but this is a snapshot of a moment in time.
If you could take a moment to do a similar test when you are getting the time out messages to see if the issue is the nameservers themselves? |
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| These kinds of warnings are appearing more frequently in the modem log.
Besides browser "address not found" errors, there are also other symptoms, such as during file transfers via non Cox newsgroups. (Microsoft, Corel, etc.
2009-07-20 23:08:53 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out 2009-07-20 15:18:53 warning DHCP RENEW WARNING - Field invalid in response 2009-07-20 08:31:44 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out 2009-07-20 03:19:05 notice TLV-11 - unrecognized OID 2009-07-20 03:18:40 critical DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response. 2009-07-20 03:18:37 critical DHCP FAILED - Discover sent, no offer received |
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| Cox Las Vegas Speed test MySpeed Results Download 3,291,024 bps Upload 1,497,744 bps Java is required.
BEFCMU10 ver. 4 Firmware Version: 2.0.3.4.2-1212 Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 699000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State Operational Operational Boot State OK Operational Security Enabled BPI+
Downstream Channel Lock Status Operational Modulation 256QAM Channel ID 1 Provisioned Rate 11500 kbps Symbol Rate 5360.537 Ksym/sec Downstream Power -2.0 dBmV SNR 38.7 dB |
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join:2007-02-26 Wichita, KS | that your downstream signals look very good condition. |
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  bbeesley VIP join:2003-08-07 Las Vegas, NV
| reply to chuckkk said by chuckkk :2009-07-20 23:08:53 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out 2009-07-20 08:31:44 critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out T3 errors occur when the modem sends a request to the CMTS to see if it needs to change it's upstream channel and it doesn't get a response back. Some T3's are normal but if you see a bunch of these occurring, then we need to start looking for return path impairments.
In this instance, you had one in the morning and then another one 15 hours later so that doesn't concern me. The other errors are just normal network fluff... the modems are actually quite chatty in regard to what errors they log and not all are significant. |
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2 edits | I didn't see anything that pointed to major problems either. The DNS difficulties come and go. Perhaps the only thing I wonder about is the 42% out of order packet messages from the gov test site. This sort of makes a bit of sense, in that streaming video (even heavily buffered) often has small sound or video "glitches". My cell phone can utilize my closed access wifi, and actually has more serious problems with streaming video, since buffering memory and processing speed is considerably less than that of my desktop P/C. It's also possible that my "node" is getting overloaded, due to a recent influx of families with teenagers in my neighborhood and the subdivisions around us. (Older folks moving out, younger families moving in) |
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1 edit | Mine is no problems at all when there's perking time at evening or tonight that matters of there's bunch of young families of teenagers or either old folks who use it no matter what type of activity what they are doing with cable internet that due i use multiple DNS addresses to revives web names really fast enough so however no matter how DNS server are good condition in your area. -- Professional Linux environmental blows microsoft windows out of the water. |
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