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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Slow connection startup Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:02:56 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32959670.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> References: <5712vv$68i@nuke.csu.net> <573mkg$pai@Symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: > > In <5712vv$68i@nuke.csu.net>, ubs01169@isc.sjsu.edu (Chad B. Page) writes: > > > > I recently installed FreeBSD on a DX4/100 (underclocked AMD-133ADW, > >'cause of the mobo) to run as a web server... my major problem right now is > >that whenever I start a connection to many types of U*ix servers (SunOS, > >Solaris, and Linux), it connects and does nothing for usually about 30 seconds > >to one minute. I'm running 2.1.6 BTW. I can't even get into my own machine > > Check /etc and see if a resolv.conf file exists. If it does, the machine will try > to query any DNS servers listed when you initiate network connections. If the > IP number in that file is not reachable, the machine will hang until the resolver > query times out. > > You can rename that file to something else but then your DNS lookups won't > work, you will have to do everything with /etc/hosts. The easiest way is to > make sure that a valid DNS server is accessible somewhere on the net and put > it's IP number into that file. > Take a look at /etc/host.conf ; you can set it up to use /etc/hosts *before* DNS (bind) and get the benefit of fast startup and DNS. But the original poster was complaining of a delay between connection and transfer. Since he was already connected, DNS was already working. I would suspect either overloaded servers or a routing problem, but have no information to point to either. -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |