I was one of the first testers of sprint broadband in the north phoenix 
area (back in.... what was it... 1999?) and I found that their DNS servers 
were slow as hell.  I did the same as you, and the first lookup was always 
slow - but after that it was fast. :-)  I also installed squid for some 
web caching and was loving life.  I eventually switched from Sprint to 
Qwest VDSL (ChoiceTV) because my signal quality sucked and I was tired of 
power-cycling my cable modem every day.  YMMV


 On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, 
Roderick Ford wrote:

> I've had Sprint Broadband for a couple of years and had slow times in my
> service during the day, no big deal.  But, lo and behold, when I finally
> hooked up a caching DNS box inside my LAN, suddenly my service is
> EXCEPTIONALLY FASTER.  It is so nice to not have to rely on their DNS
> servers except on new addresses.  If anyone hasn't done this yet, I highly
> recommend it.  It was amazing to see the difference.
> 
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