Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:15:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow use of ppp Message-ID: <199810171315.OAA10799@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:16:05 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.96.981016121133.25709A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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> 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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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