Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 19:46:30 +0100 From: FreeBSD@net-tel.co.uk To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: timeouts on 'netstat' for address->name lookups? Message-ID: <"hst:16488-950720184630-3201*/S=FreeBSD/O=NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd/PRMD=Net-Tel/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/"@MHS> In-Reply-To: <"SunOS:3994-950720153445-0192*/DD.RFC-822=hackers-owner(a)freebsd.org/O=internet/PRMD=NET-TEL/ADMD=GOLD 400/C=GB/"@MHS>
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While 75sec may well be too long for netstat, 2sec timeout is too short IMHO - your argument about nameservers assumes that you are runing a nameserver locally. If your nameserver is, for example, at the other end of a dialup PPP link, the two second timeout would very frequently fail to get the answer even when things were working normally [OK, I know I ought to set up a caching-only nameserver on my machine at home, but I've never got around to it...]. For me, somthing in the range 5-10 sec would be OK, though this feels like the sort of issue where you can't find a value to please everybody. And as someone else said, there's always netstat -n.... Andrew.
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