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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!merlin!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!imb From: imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Subject: Re: Some problems and questions with POP3D References: <3eudf8$bb2@lucy.infi.net> <D2F320.BwD@indirect.com> <D2H3F9.Bzs@store.elvisti.kiev.ua> Organization: Assorted C Software, Sydney Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 15:45:41 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <D2I949.4EI@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Reply-To: imb@scgt.oz.au Lines: 14 Andrew V. Stesin (stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua) writes: : Barnacle Wes (wes@indirect.com) wrote: : : Buy a faster computer? Pop uses TCP connections, and connection-setup : : times are relatively long, especially on slow machines with a slow : : kernel-calling mechanism. x86 counts as all of these. ;^) : x86 is fast enough. Maybe he has a misconfigured resolver. Another possibility is that it's waiting 10 seconds because it's try to do an ident call from the TCP wrapper to a system that isn't running identd, michael