From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 10 16:25: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAD937B577 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.163]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:01:59 -0700 Message-ID: <38F25AEB.C246A0C7@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:51:23 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tony@nua.ie Cc: Brian Beattie , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow connections over ethernet References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Byrne wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > > >I'm running a 10Mb ethernet and recently it has started taking a very logn > >time to connect and log into one system from another. These systems are > >all FreeBSD 4.0 of various dates, most recently April 6. I have an Ftp > >login, from the most recent system to a slightly older system that just > >got logged in. It took about 30 seconds to connect and ask for > >UID/passwd, it took about 2 minutes or mopre to get logged in. Once > >logged in, every thing seems fine. > > > >Any thoughts, things I should look at? > > Sounds like a reverse DNS problem to me. I've seen similar long > delays in getting a connection going. Once logged in then everything > seems fine. In each case, I've traced the problem down to the server > not being able to reverse resolve the client's hostname. The delay > I've seen is the amount of time it takes for the DNS lookup to timeout > so that the connection can proceed. I had another one. I was getting 8-9KB/s but when I added tun0 to my version 4.0-S network_interfaces, the rate jumped to MB/s. Kent > > Regards, > > Tony. > > -- > ============================================================== > Tony Byrne , Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland. > MP3 Musician http://www.mp3.com/tony_byrne > Get your copy of the Winamp MP3 player: http://www.winamp.com > ============================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message