Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 18:38:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: bin/402: w -n doesnt work as advertised. Message-ID: <199505132239.PAA14255@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199505132237.PAA00131@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 13, 95 03:37:28 pm
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> This works if the nameserver for all the domains is currently reachable. If
>it isn't, it can take a minute for the query to timeout. About half the time I
>do a 'w' on freefall, it takes > 1 minute to complete because of this. In
>other cases, it's often that nameservers are slow to respond - 2 seconds isn't
>unusual for non-cached entries. If this happens with just a few of the users,
>the delay can approach 5-10 seconds. The problem grows as the number of users
>increases. It's extremely annoying.
Thats true, but if the user has logged in, they have caused their entry to be
cached at the local nameserver, so you should very rarely be going offsite to
get the data.. Unless something is broken in the local nameserver.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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