on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Sunny Dubey (dubeys@voyager.bxscience.edu) wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a bunch of computers on my network here, and I've got one really odd > problem. > > For some odd reason, its takes _forever_ for me to connect to another > computer. If I try to ssh from one to another, it will take me about a > minute just to make the connection, and for some odd reason everything is > fine afterwards. (this applies to just about any service, ftp, httpd, etc) > > Anyone have any ideas as to why this happens? > Thanks > > Sunny Dubey Disable reverse DNS lookups (not sure how to do this) or straighten out your local DNS server. I recently got the kinks worked out of a locally-run DNS server (caching for the world, authoritative for the LAN plus a few favorite ad-serving sites). Once I got that all ironed out, both internal (LAN-to-LAN) and external lookups got a lot faster. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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