Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:26:37 -0600 From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com> To: Maarten van Schie <AnEra@dds.nl>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20001104202549.03df3c60@mail.starkreality.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050318030.235-100000@oT.o8.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011050248530.235-100000@oT.o8.com>
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Looks like you've got some sort of problem with your firewall ruleset. The application is trying to talk to the nameserver, but you're blocking the response. At 03:18 11/5/2000 +0100, Maarten van Schie wrote: >I just thought of adding the ns'es to /etc/hosts but it didn't help > > >On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Maarten van Schie wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, David Kelly wrote: > > > > > Maarten van Schie writes: > > > > I must say at first that I don't like the way I people are treating me > > > > inhere. It may be the words I use to tell things but I think I made > clear > > > > what my point was and still is. > > > > > > Of what you are describing right now, I'd say the data you are > > > providing is thin. Hard to help with little to go on. > > > > Thin since it's everything I can tell at this moment. > > > > > > > > > My system was running smoothly before releng4 went into 4.2-BETA > status, > > > > was indeed. > > > > As soon as I did build 4.2-B it all began, Pine and BitchX, as far as I > > > > can see now are the only ones affected with the problem on my box, are > > > > showing dificulties with their startup procedure. > > > > In other words, they need about several minutes to get up and running. > > > > > > Pine, the email client? BitchX, has something to do with IRC? > > > > Yes, that's right. > > > > > > > > Classically when a network application takes a long time to start its > > > doing DNS lookups that are failing, timing out, rolling over to your > > > next DNS server, etc. About 90 seconds per timeout. What do you have in > > > /etc/resolv.conf? What is your hostname and how is it defined in > > > > The only ones in there are the 2(NS1 and NS2 I believe) provided by my > > ISP, in their respective order. > > > > > /etc/hosts and/or the DNS server? > > > > /etc/resolve.conf: > > > > oT# cat /etc/resolv.conf > > domain o8.com > > nameserver 195.86.58.21 > > nameserver 195.86.58.3 > > > > (o8.com is a nonexistent domain) > > > > I tried using it with and without the domain line, but without succes. > > > > /etc/hosts: > > > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11.2.1 2000/08/18 18:29:19 ume Exp $ > > # > > # Host Database > > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases > > # for local hosts that share this file. > > # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may > > # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. > > # > > # > > ::1 localhost > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > # > > # Imaginary network. > > 192.168.1.1 gateway > > 192.168.1.2 jovasco1 > > 192.168.1.5 oT > > 192.168.1.10 aapieAMD > > 192.168.1.11 aapieP > > 192.168.1.14 jovasco2 > > 192.168.1.15 jetdirect > > > > #10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname > > #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend > > # > > # According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for > > # private nets which will never be connected to the Internet: > > # > > # 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 > > # 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 > > # 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 > > # > > # In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need > > # real official assigned numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try > > # to invent your own network numbers but instead get one from your > > # network provider (if any) or from the Internet Registry (ftp to > > # rs.internic.net, directory `/templates'). > > # > > > > Thisone I tried with and without my own host in it, but again without any > > succes. > > > > > > Hmm, I just recall a, what I thought to be, minor oddity from log_in_vain > > and found out that starting Pine gives me the following output(without > > any other network traffic from and to my box): > > > > Nov 5 02:50:17 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1424 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:50:22 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1425 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:50:28 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1426 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:50:52 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1429 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:50:57 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1430 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:51:04 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1431 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:51:29 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1434 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:51:34 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1435 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:51:36 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1436 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:52:03 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1439 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:52:07 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1440 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > Nov 5 02:52:13 oT /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.1.5:1441 > > from 195.86.58.3:53 > > > > The DNS server you see is the secondary one. > > > > The files mentioned did not change in the last 5 weeks or something. > > > > Maarten. > > > > > > > > > > > > If its DNS, then its most likely the apps are looking up the hostname to > > > get your IP address(es). Else they are looking up servers to connect to. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > > > ===================================================================== > > > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > > > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- William S. Duncanson caesar@starkreality.com The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who brought us things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can make an appliance that is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose to do that. -- Scott Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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