Re: Slow PING response from 470-487T switch ??

Ron <pts4560@xxxxxxxxx> said to all and sundry:

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...

PING 192.168.1.100 (lets say that is servers address) it sends a
reply back right away, no waiting.

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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