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shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> My Petium 120 is running FreeBSD 2.1. When I run the command netstat -r from
> the command line with user ppp running, it takes this command several minutes
> at best to complete. Why does it take so long? What is is doing that is taking
> so much time(name lookup?)? Is there any way to improve the performance?
> Kirk :)


Name lookup is usually a cause of long timeouts. To check it out, simply
try netstat -rn. This will skip the lookups and display all address
numerically. If it runs fast, then the problem is name lookup.

Nadav