Hey guys,
I'm having a problem with my dns server. I am running it on my SM server. It takes an average of 4 seconds to get into one of my sites.. for instance

;; Query time: 4146 msec
;; SERVER: 216.185.111.10#53(ns1.servermatrix.com)
;; WHEN: Sun Nov 27 04:22:54 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113

And I was using the command dig @ns1.servermatrix.com www.instagator.com

So I don't get it, why does it take so long to resolve?
Any help would be appreciated!

Sorry.
To add to this, I'm running RHE 3 with Cpanel!

;; Query time: 86 msec
;; SERVER: 216.185.111.10#53(ns1.servermatrix.com)
;; WHEN: Sun Nov 27 09:28:13 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 420

well now its fine coming from that dns because that domain and ip are cached there.. try a different one and it'll be like 4 seconds

Unresponsive forward servers or invalid root servers. Look at both of those.

And how do I go about doing that? lol.. sorry.. don't have much expierence with DNS

OK.. This is whats happening, reason why its taking so long is that nameserver 1 is failing.. and I have no clue why.

Windows IP Configuration

Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

C:Documents and SettingsInstagator>nslookup ns1.instagator.com
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1

*** UnKnown can't find ns1.instagator.com: Server failed

C:Documents and SettingsInstagator>nslookup ns2.instagator.com
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ns2.instagator.com
Address: 69.xx.xxx.211

It found the second one, but not the first one, why would it do that?

No need to continue cross posting - http://forums.theplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=17616