From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 06:22:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10859 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:22:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10852 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03066; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:15:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10799; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:15:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810171315.OAA10799@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Slow use of ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:16:05 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:15:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi! > > I recently crashed my /, and lost all my file in it, including /etc. > > I rebuilded it from scratch, but It's surely not as it should be, because > a lot of thing are going wrong here. > > When I use ppp to connect to my isp, a simple telnet to my isp takes so > long that I at first thougth that there was no connection. Same problem > with pine, which takes long enough to start for me to kill it. [.....] This sort if thing is usually because of a resolver problem. Maybe you're missing stuff from /etc/hosts or have the order wrong in /etc/host.conf ? > Thanks! > > Spidey -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message