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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:55:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wierd network issues on LAN - hard to describe
To: Scott Stevens <myxlplyx@fuse.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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This slowness might be caused by failing reverse
lookups. When you connect to ftp, and SSH I believe,
the box trys to resolve the originating IP to a name.
That takes a long time if it fails. If you don't have
reverse DNS set up, try adding entries to /etc/hosts
for the machines on your LAN. 

--Tim 

--- Scott Stevens <myxlplyx@fuse.net> wrote:
> I've recently started having some interesting
> network issues with my machine
> and was hoping someone here could help me out.
> 
> I'm having trouble connecting to my machine running
> FreeBSD from any of the
> other machines on my lan (2 win2k machines and an
> Ibook). When I use telnet
> or ftp, the connection takes an obscene amount of
> time to connect, I would
> probably say almost 2 minutes and ssh and pop3 won't
> connect at all. Other
> things like web traffic and connecting to my
> shoutcast streams works fine.
> If I connect to the machine from anywhere outside my
> LAN, say from work or a
> friends house, everything works properly.
> 
> My lan is set up as such; I have adsl which comes in
> via a Cisco 675, that
> is fed into a Linksys Cable/DSL router and then
> pushed out to each of the
> machines. At first I thought something was wonky
> with the linksys router so
> I double checked the port forwarding setup and then
> ultimately removed it
> from the mix all together when the problem didn't go
> away. Then I switched
> out network cards thinking the card might have gone
> bad (it was pretty old
> and needed to be swapped for a 10/100 anyway).
> Currently there is a Linksys
> LNE100TX (v5.1) in the machine, but that didn't seem
> to make any difference
> either.
> 
> This problem just came out of the blue the other day
> and I have no idea
> what's up. Any ideas? Keep in mind the problem is
> only on my local network,
> everything works 100% if I connect to the machine
> from the outside.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> scott.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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