From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 5 15:59:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F367537B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from columbus.rr.com (dhcp065-024-012-043.columbus.rr.com [65.24.12.43]) by clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28499 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:55:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A05F587.B4566BA8@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:04:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable References: <200011052249.eA5Mn0S61355@grumpy.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly wrote: > > Maarten van Schie writes: > > I think you missed something, root uses Pine(just local) and users use it > > remote(iaw log in to their respective servers), so AFAIK root does not > > need to do DNS requests. > > Whether it *needs* to do a DNS or not is beside the point. The > conclusion is that it appears to be doing a DNS lookup. Could be for > nothing more than an IP address of the local machine. > > How responsive is "nslookup"? Well, just because it looks something up > fast is no good measure, but if you can find something it might lookup > slow that should be fast then you've found a clue. How fast does it > lookup your oT machine and the others on the local net? Why not use something like tcpdump or ethereal to monitor the network traffic and see what it's actually requesting?? -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message