Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:52:36 -0700 From: darwood@mac.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Authentication when telneting lag Message-ID: <334B242C-2B46-11D6-91A9-000502D58F42@mac.com>
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Hi all, Ok I've been stuck on this problem for some while now. I have the usual problem of when I telnet or do a pop3 connection, ssh, etc to an outside box, I have a lag time of a minute or more after I have connected. Now I know this is probably due to the fact that I don't have a reverse lookup. This is actually a problem with my isp. I run a name server on my freeBSD box but the reverse lookup for my ip isn't mapped to my name server. The problem or more the confusion I'm having is that when I connect my OS X box up to the cable modem instead of the freeBSD box I don't have as long of timeouts. I notice that most servers want to check port 113 for ident and to see if this was the problem I set up ident, had the port refuse by opening the port 113 with no service behind it and also had the firewall return that the port is unreachable. These tests didn't change anything. I checked how the OS X box responds to a port 113 connection and it just refuses. So my question is why are the lag times on my freeBSD box so long where they aren't as long in OS X? If this was strictly a server issue not being able to do a reverse lookup it should have identical behavior. I use freeBSD for a firewall/nat server so that I can share the one ip with 3 other boxes. All the boxes that connect through the freeBSD box using nat have the same lag. It's only if I bypass the firewall that the lag is less. Now for my configuration I was running 4.4 stable but upgraded to 4.5 stable to see if this would fix anything. I also run the default simple firewall rules. The box itself is a Pentium 60 with two SMC 10/100 ethernet cards. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. -- Derek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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