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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Adam L. Simpson" <adam@netsonic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Novell Network with NT Clients - Slow
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410225555.28437K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804091528.KAA01826@localhost.intranet>

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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Adam L. Simpson wrote:

> We are running a FreeBSD box on a Novell Network with NT Clients on a
> intranet.

okay.

> After about 4 months without any problems - performance wise, all of a
> sudden the box is very slow to react.  A reinstall of the os and web server
> did not help nor did running a separate box with the 2.2.5 and 2.2.6
> release.  Same effect.  Reaction to an initial telnet session is very slow
> but once in, reactions are immediate.  The same with the web server.  

This smells of broken reverse nameservice.  Check your nameserver and/or
named configuration.

> The next thing we did was enable a box and locate it outside the firewall.
> Now if we go to this box from inside the network, it responds fine - very
> fast and responds almost immediately.

Or someone blocked DNS to the outside world at the firewall. :(

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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