From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 17:51:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BE137B41D for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783BC2B78A; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:51:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A2F4C36A; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:51:49 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:51:49 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Vega, Cesar" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow response from inetd services Message-ID: <20020205125149.Q1599@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , "Vega, Cesar" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <9638B68DBCF5D311B70400508B0CC3ED032CB611@MXMCM201> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <9638B68DBCF5D311B70400508B0CC3ED032CB611@MXMCM201>; from cesar.vega@eds.com on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:58:51PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:58:51PM -0600, Vega, Cesar wrote: > I'm new in FreeBSD and I have my first problem: > > I installed FreeBSD 4.2 (I only have that version and I don't have Internet > access from here in order to install a more recent version via ftp). I'm > using the kernel security level # 2. I know that in this level inetd isn't > enabled by default, but because I need it in order to run some network > services, I activated inetd in /etc/rc.conf. > > All works OK, except that my inetd services respond very, very slow. There > isn't a firewall between my machine and the FreeBSD box, so I don't know > what the problem is. Maybe some kind of encryption/authentication or > something like that? I'm using TCP-Wrappers in /etc/inetd.conf, but I have > the same slow response without TCP-Wrappers. I compiled TCP-Wrappers, I > haven't installed the package. Inetd is waiting for DNS answers, which aren't going to come if you're not on the next. Best thing is to do is to disable DNS lookups by commenting out the statement in /etc/resolv.conf. Once you have internet-connectitivity, or a proper working named somewhere, enable it again. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message