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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: why IRC server response slowly?
Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:06:35 GMT
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Michael Law <luoht@usa.net> wrote in
<33a4fa5b.2368505@mrnews.mro.dec.com>...
> I installed irc2.9.1.16 on FreeBSD2.2.1.  My IRC client is mIRC5.02.
> It takes 27 seconds to connect to the server.  What's going wrong?
> 

The server can't resolve your IP address, perhaps?
Make sure, there's a correct reverse mapping for your host.

Patrick