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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:18:43 +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.4.21.0011050318030.235-100000@oT.o8.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050248530.235-100000@oT.o8.com>

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I just thought of adding the ns'es to /etc/hosts but it didn't help


On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Maarten van Schie wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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