From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 15:26:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03266 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03261 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA27476; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id SAA03211; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id SAA24933; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:27 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Brian Somers cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Slow use of ppp In-Reply-To: <199810171315.OAA10799@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That was it, thanks! a wrong address in resolv.conf... sad :) On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I recently crashed my /, and lost all my file in it, including /etc. > > > > I rebuilded it from scratch, but It's surely not as it should be, because > > a lot of thing are going wrong here. > > > > When I use ppp to connect to my isp, a simple telnet to my isp takes so > > long that I at first thougth that there was no connection. Same problem > > with pine, which takes long enough to start for me to kill it. > [.....] > > This sort if thing is usually because of a resolver problem. Maybe > you're missing stuff from /etc/hosts or have the order wrong in > /etc/host.conf ? > > > Thanks! > > > > Spidey > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message