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Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Changing to pserver did indeed stop the delays, so many thanks for that. > > Do you have any suggestions of where to look to find out how to set up > Reverse DNS correctly on the server? All the doc I can find seems to start > with the premise that you know all there is to know about the subject before > you start. > It depends on the server... You just setup a domain x.y.z.in-addr.arpa (where x.y.z is the last 3 numbers of your domain, in reverse) with PTR records for each server. eg. if you have a machine fred IN A 192.168.1.32 you need a reverse in 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa 32 IN PTR fred. btw. you won't get the delay if your DNS server simply refuses to serve the x.y.z.in-addr.arpa domain...you're getting the delay because your server says it is authoritative for the reverse DNS then refuses to actually return any data... so one option is to go the other way disable it on the server completely (not that I would recommend such an action...) If it's working you can run nslookup on either name or IP and get the other one.. eg: C:\>nslookup tucker ... Name: tucker.local.nodomain.org Address: 192.168.44.254 C:\>nslookup 192.168.44.254 ... Name: tucker.local.nodomain.org Address: 192.168.44.254 Or even: C:\>nslookup -query=ptr 254.44.168.192.in-addr.arpa ... 254.44.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = tucker.local.nodomain.org 44.168.192.in-addr.arpa nameserver = dns0.nodomain.org dns0.nodomain.org internet address = 213.208.99.114 Tony