DNS lookup problem-slow

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I am having a strange problem with DNS lookups. My router is a Trendnet TEW-611, it has a built in DNS Relay. So that means all I should have to do is set the IP of my router as my DNS server. Yet when I do this DNS lookups are very slow, where if I put the DNS address's of my ISP directly in the Network Preference Panel, DNS lookups are much faster. This makes no sense to me as the DNS Relay should be less delayed than going out onto the internet to do a name lookup.

Does anyone else see problems using their router as a DNS server?


Thanks
 
Well I think I have found the answer. After lots of searching and reading I took a look at my hostconfig file, and I found that it was missing several lines of data when I compared it to another file on another MAC. In fact it only had about 6 lines of text. So I copied the file from the other machine, and I also took the step of setting the IPV6 to -NO-. Whether it was the file, or the IPV6 correction, my DNS lookups are now rapid fast and my problem is gone.

Cheers
 
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