From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 5:11:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C9E14CA8 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 05:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07573; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:09:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:09:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Kevin Bailey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP 'services' stop during download In-Reply-To: <37897EC9.BBFE9185@earthlink.net> 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 I thought FTP expanded to available bandwidth or close to.. On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kevin Bailey wrote: > I have noticed that, during an ftp download, several IP services are > inaccessible. For example, DNS look-ups time-out and netstat (without > any parameters) just hangs until the ftp ends. My system only has one > interface, userland ppp over a 28k modem (configured for auto-dialing), > which also handles all my DNS look-ups. My hostname is fictitious but > resolved in 'hosts'. > > I would have thought that the DNS replies are simply being dropped by > the router at the other end of the phone line except that the ftp isn't > filling the entire pipe and, as mentioned, netstat also hangs. > > 'top' doesn't show anything spinning and all other programs work fine. > > Can anyone think of anything that might cause this ? Has anyone else > noticed this ? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message