Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:30:05 +1030 From: Ian West <ian@apdata.com.au> To: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does it it take so long to establish a connection to some FreeBSDhosts ? Message-ID: <36ECDA25.62537880@apdata.com.au> References: <n1290633916.6176@maczebedee>
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Graeme Brown wrote: > > Hi > > I have noticed on several occasions that it may take on the order of minutes > to establish > a telnet or ftp connection between two FreeBSD (typically our FBSD > boxes are using releases 2.2.6 -> 2.2.8. Does this have something to do with > TCP configuration options ? What do I need to do to speed this up ? > > TIA > > Graeme N Brown > BT labs, Uk > email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk > When I have seen this, it is usually due to DNS lookups timing out, either due to an unresolveable source address, or a loss of connection to the master DNS server. Easy answer if you are using local boxes is to make sure /etc/hosts is referenced first (/etc/host.conf), and put the interfaces of the two boxes into /etc/hosts. If do not have DNS enabled, then I have no idea :-) ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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