From: "Robert Comer" 

That definitely help Vista too, *much* faster.

I wonder what is going on here, is it a failure of Vista and Linux to do
the right thing with the DNS entries, or is it that something about the DNS
isn't standards compliant and Vista and Linux are trying to do it right.

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Bob Comer


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:44c4dcd7{at}w3.nls.net...
> dang, I wonder if that would help Vista.  Vista has serious problems
> accessing news.barkto.com, I didn't even have a clue it might be DNS
> related.  (I'll find out soon enough, copying about 20G so I can't reboot
> to Vista right now)
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> Bob Comer
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> "George Sherwood"  wrote in message
> news:44c4d703$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:48:05 -0400, Gary Britt wrote:
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>>> What entry did you put in the hosts file?
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>> I put:
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>>       216.144.1.254   news.barkto.com
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>> Clearly not a permanent solution, but makes it better until I can come up
>> with some DNS options.
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>> George
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