From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 23 23:13:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from atro.pine.nl (atro.pine.nl [212.206.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A87114D78 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@pine.nl) Received: from localhost by atro.pine.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11903; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:13:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:13:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Lastdrager To: Greg Quinlan Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow to connect-services! In-Reply-To: <000c01bf05de$c6c151e0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Thu, 23 Sep 1999, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: >Hi all, > >I am not sure if it is something I have done to my firewall, but ever >since I upgraded to 3.3RC, the decision-of weather to allow services >(from the firewall) like, ftp, telnet or pop3 appears to be very slow!!! >(10 or more seconds for telnet or pop3) Once the connection is made >traffic speeds appear normal. Could be a problem with the namelookup of the connecting host. Check if you FreeBSD box can properly communicate with nameservers.. Mark Lastdrager Pine Internet -- email: mark@lastdrager.nl tel. +31-70-3111010 http://www.pine.nl fax. +31-70-3111011 PGP ID 92BB81D1 -- Security news @ http://security.pine.nl Today's excuse: That's easy to fix, but I can't be bothered. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message