Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:12:05 +0100 (CET) From: Maarten van Schie <AnEra@dds.nl> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050248530.235-100000@oT.o8.com> In-Reply-To: <200011050146.eA51k6S89790@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, David Kelly wrote: > Maarten van Schie writes: > > I must say at first that I don't like the way I people are treating me > > inhere. It may be the words I use to tell things but I think I made clear > > what my point was and still is. > > Of what you are describing right now, I'd say the data you are > providing is thin. Hard to help with little to go on. Thin since it's everything I can tell at this moment. > > > My system was running smoothly before releng4 went into 4.2-BETA status, > > was indeed. > > As soon as I did build 4.2-B it all began, Pine and BitchX, as far as I > > can see now are the only ones affected with the problem on my box, are > > showing dificulties with their startup procedure. > > In other words, they need about several minutes to get up and running. > > Pine, the email client? BitchX, has something to do with IRC? Yes, that's right. > > Classically when a network application takes a long time to start its > doing DNS lookups that are failing, timing out, rolling over to your > next DNS server, etc. About 90 seconds per timeout. What do you have in > /etc/resolv.conf? What is your hostname and how is it defined in The only ones in there are the 2(NS1 and NS2 I believe) provided by my ISP, in their respective order. > /etc/hosts and/or the DNS server? /etc/resolve.conf: oT# cat /etc/resolv.conf domain o8.com nameserver 195.86.58.21 nameserver 195.86.58.3 (o8.com is a nonexistent domain) I tried using it with and without the domain line, but without succes. /etc/hosts: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11.2.1 2000/08/18 18:29:19 ume Exp $ # # Host Database # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # # ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost # # Imaginary network. 192.168.1.1 gateway 192.168.1.2 jovasco1 192.168.1.5 oT 192.168.1.10 aapieAMD 192.168.1.11 aapieP 192.168.1.14 jovasco2 192.168.1.15 jetdirect #10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend # # According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for # private nets which will never be connected to the Internet: # # 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 # 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 # 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 # # In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need # real official assigned numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try # to invent your own network numbers but instead get one from your # network provider (if any) or from the Internet Registry (ftp to # rs.internic.net, directory `/templates'). # Thisone I tried with and without my own host in it, but again without any succes. Hmm, I just recall a, what I thought to be, minor oddity from log_in_vain and found out that starting Pine gives me the following output(without any other network traffic from and to my box): Nov 5 02:50:17 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1424 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:50:22 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1425 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:50:28 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1426 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:50:52 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1429 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:50:57 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1430 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:51:04 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1431 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:51:29 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1434 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:51:34 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1435 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:51:36 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1436 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:52:03 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1439 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:52:07 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1440 from 195.86.58.3:53 Nov 5 02:52:13 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1441 from 195.86.58.3:53 The DNS server you see is the secondary one. The files mentioned did not change in the last 5 weeks or something. Maarten. > > If its DNS, then its most likely the apps are looking up the hostname to > get your IP address(es). Else they are looking up servers to connect to. > > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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