Read inline please.
In news:8F67C852-3635-42A6-AF09-89029799A652[ at ]microsoft.com,
Andy3691 <Andy3691[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
[Quoted Text] > I need your technical opinion. I have a Server 2003 Enterprise domain
> environment. I have 2 dns servers; all my clients pull ip addresses
> from dhcp which itself is configured with the 2 dns servers. These
> dns servers are configured with forwarders to our hosted ISP for all
> external dns resolutions. For serveral months we have been noticing,
> off and on during the day, slow response time for internet web pages
> to complete filling the screen. After weeks of trouble shooting this
> problem, using a Sniffer and monitoring the WAN bandwidth, I have
> found that if I configure my NICs Preferred DNS as one of my
> internals and the Alternate DNS with one from my ISP the response
> time is 50% faster at least. When I go back using my internal DNS
> addresses it goes slow once more. Looks like I have a fix but the
> why aludes me. Any ideas on this would be very welcomed.
You shouldn't have your ISP's DNS in TCP/IP properties of any member of an
AD domain.
What is the response time of the internal DNS servers?
Use Dig or Netdig for teting your DNS servers, nslookup is built in, but it
doesn't give you the query time like dig or netdig does.
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