From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 18:44:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF7E1065671 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:44:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C618FC1B for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:44:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00ACO99ORN10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:41:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00L6I99ME7C0@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:41:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00EE099MOS10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:41:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id D006DB839 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:36 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <20080618083654.GB71985@osiris.chen.org.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080618114136.2ffd3a57@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080616001840.0d0e8fe9@gom.home> <20080616082332.02b87114.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20080617220514.1ebdabef@gom.home> <20080618083654.GB71985@osiris.chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: internet slowdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:44:13 -0000 On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:36:54 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote: > You do realise that this particular symptom usually points to > reverse-lookup errors. I would examine your DNS server logs. > i will look, but we are using the same named.conf and zone files as we did when we had 6.3 where we had no problems like this. also, would there be such sporadic issues? shouldn't a reverse dns problem be consistently problematic? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's