From: /m 

On 24 Jul 2006 10:19:47 -0400, "George Sherwood"
 wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:48:05 -0400, Gary Britt wrote:
>
>> What entry did you put in the hosts file?
>
>I put:
>
>       216.144.1.254   news.barkto.com
>
>Clearly not a permanent solution, but makes it better until I can come up
>with some DNS options.

try the command

 dig news.barkto.com

near the end of the output is the time it took to resolve the name.

 /m

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