From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:57:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02803 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02767 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28563; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Adam L. Simpson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Novell Network with NT Clients - Slow In-Reply-To: <199804091528.KAA01826@localhost.intranet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message