that's a DNS problem. My guess is that your workstations are not registering with a DNS server authoratative for your local zone, and instead you're using your ISP's DNS servers. If DNS doesn't work, Windows will resort to broadcasts and that's pretty inefficient and takes a…
Read the full replyI've got a 470 stack of 3 switches hooked up to an 8600 via an MLT. I am running my vlans out to the switches.
I have all my vlans out to my switches but I am having a great lag when trying to PING by name on my network. If I try to:
PING server it waits and sits for about 13 seconds before it starts to say Reply From... I then start to get the reply 4 packets
Ron said to all and sundry:
that's a DNS problem. My guess is that your workstations are not registering with a DNS server authoratative for your local zone, and instead you're using your ISP's DNS servers. If DNS doesn't work, Windows will resort to broadcasts and that's pretty inefficient and takes a great amount of time.
So don't worry about the switches. They seem to be fine.
- Dan
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