Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 10:51:19 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.com, tony-o@iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: netstat -r Message-ID: <32CB7707.7697@barcode.co.il> References: <1.5.4.32.19970102182533.006790d8@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > My Petium 120 is running FreeBSD 2.1. When I run the command netstat -r from > the command line with user ppp running, it takes this command several minutes > at best to complete. Why does it take so long? What is is doing that is taking > so much time(name lookup?)? Is there any way to improve the performance? > Kirk :) Name lookup is usually a cause of long timeouts. To check it out, simply try netstat -rn. This will skip the lookups and display all address numerically. If it runs fast, then the problem is name lookup. Nadavhelp
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