system crawling....

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Mickey Moore wrote:

> Is it possible that the primary DNS server is not responding and a
> timeout must occur each lookup before switching to the alternate? This
> type of external wait delay would not be affected by the speed of the
> 8x2GHZ system.

Sounds very plausible alright.  Would DNS delay a local text terminal login
though?

Gavin