From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 19:57:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA16909 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA16904 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:57:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA26963; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Tsai cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reverse DNS problems In-Reply-To: <199701291713.LAA08073@shell.futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > I'm having a problem that my provider is unable to explain. Let me > demonstrate by an example: > > from 207.141.254.20: lynx www.sarc.msstate.edu > > The connection will be immediate, but it will be 2 minutes before > any data is transferred back. telnet/ftp will send the prompt back > immediately (we're only 7 hops apart afterall). > Check /etc/resolv.conf; make sure you have a valid nameserver. > See the pattern here? Note that this applies to all 207.141.254. > machines. Can somebody tell me where to even start > tracking down the problem? If it's a reverse DNS lookup problem, is > there any utilities/commands that I can run to verify? My provider is > handling my primary DNS, by the way. Is named running on this machine? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major