On 05/18/2012 02:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/18/2012 05:40 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I can't see how your router or ISP could add to the "real" time. I suppose you don't have another system to check it....
Could you try the non-builtin time command?
/usr/bin/time dig @8.8.8.8 www.ny.com
Apparently, the internal shell time command is not reliable.
$ /usr/bin/time dig @8.8.8.8 www.ny.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2-RedHat-9.8.2-1.fc16 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.ny.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30022 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.ny.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.ny.com. 1353 IN CNAME web1.ny.com. web1.ny.com. 1353 IN A 184.106.212.108
;; Query time: 67 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Fri May 18 02:51:01 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
0.00user 0.00system 0:00.08elapsed 12%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2628maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+743minor)pagefaults 0swaps