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From: Paul Sondhu <paul@troi.comcirc.com.au>
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Subject: The time it take to log in when network connection is down
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I have noticed that when our internet connection is down, it takes a
long time to login into our main internet server. Our server is a 
FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine and it handles email, dialup and DNS. After the
password is typed in, the 'You have mail' prompt comes up as usual but
the shell prompt takes a few minutes to appear before you can start using
the shell. What I mean by our internet connection being down is when our
LAN is disconnected from our service provider.

Its not a problem since it only happens when our connection has 
been disconnected which is quite rare. Just out of interest, I'd just
like to know why it happens?

Regards,

Paul.