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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow load times Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:49:28 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <324BA328.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <1996Sep26.220326.25130@roper.uwyo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@pobox.com> Joel Maslak wrote: > For instance, the Linux binary of pine takes about 2-3 seconds to load > (Max), while the BSD version (pine 3.95 compiled as NetBSD) takes > anywhere from 30-45 seconds. Obviously something *FEELS* wrong! Sounds like DNS is messed up in your FreeBSD environment but working somehow in the Linux one. Those sorts of delays aren't normal and sound more like something taking an abnormally long amount of time to resolve a hostname (possibly your own) or something. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project