Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:16:03 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Paul Sondhu <paul@troi.comcirc.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The time it take to log in when network connection is down Message-ID: <199604160716.AAA03461@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:27:11 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960416171709.22128A-100000@troi.comcirc.com.au>
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>I have noticed that when our internet connection is down, it takes a >long time to login into our main internet server. Our server is a >FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine and it handles email, dialup and DNS. After the >password is typed in, the 'You have mail' prompt comes up as usual but >the shell prompt takes a few minutes to appear before you can start using >the shell. What I mean by our internet connection being down is when our >LAN is disconnected from our service provider. > >Its not a problem since it only happens when our connection has >been disconnected which is quite rare. Just out of interest, I'd just >like to know why it happens? tcsh does a DNS query on the hostname and this can take about 2 minutes to timeout if your Internet connection is down. I believe that this has been "fixed" recently in our tcsh port, but I may be mistaken. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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