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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Routing problems Message-ID: <E718GD.Ct7@ora.de> Organization: Verlag O'Reilly References: <24187b69.u9t27e.cb746@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> <daniel-1303971739220001@giffin.student.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:09:48 GMT Lines: 13 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37094 In <daniel-1303971739220001@giffin.student.harvard.edu> daniel@eecs.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin) writes: >I have had this same problem every once in a while -- I can't telnet in or >request web pages or anything for a good 60 seconds or so. Is this simply >because my local DNS server is too slow? This is usually because your reverse mapping (i.e. the DNS entries that map IP addresses to host names) aren't setup correctly. -- Christoph Badura Now available in print: Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code http://www.peer-to-peer.com/