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To: "Jose F. Reyes" <cdrshop@caribe.net>
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Subject: Re: Slow response on 2.1.5 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 19:11:11 -0700
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>I just installed 2.1.5 from scratch on a PC that used to have 2.1.0.
>However, the system's response is sometimes slow (in the order of a minute
>or so) to respond, at least with the commands 'netstat' and 'ppp'. The box
>is configured similarly to the old 2.1.0 setup, which was always very fast.
>This behavior happens frequently, but not all the time; if I reboot,
>sometimes it works as fast as it should.
>
>Any ideas on what the problem might be? Thank you for your help.

   Sounds like a nameserver problem.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project