Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 19:04:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <3A05F587.B4566BA8@columbus.rr.com> References: <200011052249.eA5Mn0S61355@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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David Kelly wrote: > > 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? Why not use something like tcpdump or ethereal to monitor the network traffic and see what it's actually requesting?? -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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