From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 04:27:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA04526 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 04:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA04521 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 04:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA32247; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 06:27:53 GMT Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa11219; 16 Apr 96 7:22 EDT Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey To: Paul Sondhu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The time it take to log in when network connection is down In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My vote is that your /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to an offsite DNS On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Paul Sondhu wrote: > > 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. >