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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:58:45 +1100 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Harry Patterson <harry@visiontm.com>
Cc:        "stable freebsd.org" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FTP and Telnet pblms with Ethernet
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.980217225648.776B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <01bd3b98$2bd837a0$d86190cf@harry>

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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Harry Patterson wrote:

> connection to a FreeBSD 2.2.5 box.  Apache works fine (fast) so it doesn't
> seem to be a DNS thing (simple DNS with only one box, one domain, nslookup

Apache could be set to not do reverse lookups.  Is ping/nslookup fast 
from the FreeBSD when resolving reverse domains, e.g. the IP address of 
your win95 box?

> I've seen this question posted in a couple of places (I've been virtually
> everywhere) and the only response was possibly DNS.  If it was DNS, why
> would http work fine?

Because apache is not doing reverse lookups, and other things are.

Danny

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