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Re: heard all the who-haha?



Kevin Traas wrote:

>  >Debian 1.3.1 sports a who which many are saying is "slow" while
> others
> >are saying the slowness is due to slow named servers. Were there
> >any notable changes leading up the the /usr/bin/who which came with
> >shellutils 1.16-2?
>
> I've been reading this thread with quite some interest as I have a
> similar
> problem albeit with different applications....   I guess it's time for
> me to
> say something.
>
> I've been experiencing problems with some people telnetting into my
> system.
> Many people don't have a problem, but others do....  The problem is
> that the
> telnet client says "connected"; however, there is no response from my
> system
> for 150 seconds - 2.5 minutes!  Once the client finally gets the
> response,
> everything is fine from there.  No more delays, no more problems.

Yes, I've noticed this too.  I have two systems connected by cheap
ethernet cards, and a PPP link out to the big wide world.  If I try to
telnet from the secondary box to my Linux box and the PPP link isn't up,
it takes 2 minutes easily for the connection to go through.  If PPP is
up, it's nice and fast.  This behavior started when I installed bind as
a caching nameserver, and I suspect it would ceace if I removed it.

--Galen



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