DNS lookups timing out

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-10 03:24am

All this evening I've had huge trouble with DNS lookups being called repeatedly for the same sites over and over again ON TOP of every site I access for the first time today. It's already bad in that it always neatly doubles page-load times when they do work, now they fail completely around 80% of the time. This is seriously fucking me up. I already tried resetting the modem and the router, problem lessened in severity to 10% failure rate. For about two minutes.

Then it's right back up past 90% failing.

This is fucking bullshit.

EDIT: It seems the ten or twenty percent success rate is characterized by all affected sites loading very quickly until the DNS servers go back to sleep (or packets get dropped) after around a thirty second window.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-10 01:18pm

And I found out what it was last night but went to bed before I could post: KCeasy and Azureus were running on the other computer...

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2006-10-10 07:42pm

You need some QoS dude.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-10 09:52pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:You need some QoS dude.

I think I do too. What's the best setting for minimal impact on torrent/kceasy speed while allowing acceptable browser performance?

Thinking back on the nature of the problem's behavior has me realizing that it is exactly consistent with a combined Bittorrent and Kazaa/Gnutella-type severe overconsumption of upload bandwidth.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2006-10-10 11:28pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:You need some QoS dude.
I think I do too. What's the best setting for minimal impact on torrent/kceasy speed while allowing acceptable browser performance?

What's your router firmware? I use DD-WRT and have BT traffic set to "Bulk" priority, no guaranteed bandwidth. Http and telnet get 10% guaranteed.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-11 06:17pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:You need some QoS dude.
I think I do too. What's the best setting for minimal impact on torrent/kceasy speed while allowing acceptable browser performance?
What's your router firmware? I use DD-WRT and have BT traffic set to "Bulk" priority, no guaranteed bandwidth. Http and telnet get 10% guaranteed.

Bog standard BEFSR-41 (now you know why I want a WRT54GL).

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2006-10-11 07:28pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote: I think I do too. What's the best setting for minimal impact on torrent/kceasy speed while allowing acceptable browser performance?
What's your router firmware? I use DD-WRT and have BT traffic set to "Bulk" priority, no guaranteed bandwidth. Http and telnet get 10% guaranteed.
Bog standard BEFSR-41 (now you know why I want a WRT54GL).

Go for it. I see $66.71 for me in CA with tax and shipping via PriceGrabber.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-11 07:39pm

Xisiqomelir wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote: What's your router firmware? I use DD-WRT and have BT traffic set to "Bulk" priority, no guaranteed bandwidth. Http and telnet get 10% guaranteed.
Bog standard BEFSR-41 (now you know why I want a WRT54GL).
Go for it. I see $66.71 for me in CA with tax and shipping via PriceGrabber.

As soon as Dave's charge card comes in...