From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 5 14:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (cm-24-246-28-166.toney.mediacom.ispchannel.com [24.246.28.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6686237B4CF for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:49:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA5Mn0S61355; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:49:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200011052249.eA5Mn0S61355@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Maarten van Schie Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable In-reply-to: Message from Maarten van Schie of "Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:34:06 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:49:00 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maarten van Schie writes: > I think you missed something, root uses Pine(just local) and users use it > remote(iaw log in to their respective servers), so AFAIK root does not > need to do DNS requests. Whether it *needs* to do a DNS or not is beside the point. The conclusion is that it appears to be doing a DNS lookup. Could be for nothing more than an IP address of the local machine. How responsive is "nslookup"? Well, just because it looks something up fast is no good measure, but if you can find something it might lookup slow that should be fast then you've found a clue. How fast does it lookup your oT machine and the others on the local net? Wonder if your DNS servers don't know oT and are not authoratative for oT's domain so they go looking upstream DNS servers rather than return an instant "Not Found". As you say in an earlier message o8.com is a non-existent domain. So such a lookup has to go all the way to the root domain servers before that is discovered. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message