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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Slow connection startup Date: 22 Nov 1996 08:01:19 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <573mkg$pai@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <5712vv$68i@nuke.csu.net> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 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.