On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:31:19PM +0100, William Benfold wrote: > Forgive me for adding to the chaos, but I just subscribed yesterday, about > 18 hours ago. When I checked my mail today, I had 512 messages, and new > ones are appearing at a rate of one every couple of minutes. Someone please > tell me this isn't normal! It's not. There's a broken relay someplace in HK, aparently. > How do you people cope with this volume of traffic? Delete key, procmail recipies, and tag-by-header tools under Mutt. When the need arises. > I have just managed to get the linux machine talking to the network, but I'm > having a problem: whenever I telnet in from windoze, the connection opens, > and then there's a big delay before the login prompt is displayed. In fact, > I've timed this delay, and it is always more or less exactly 2 mins and 30 > secs. Once the login prompt is displayed, all is fine, any delays are > unnoticably short. The network experiences only very light load, spending > most of the time idle. You've got a reverse DNS lookup problem. Usually on Linux this means you don't have your /etc/resolv.conf file specified correctly (order hosts, bind), are missing /etc/hosts entries for the machine in question, or similar issues. A long delay on network operations within a local netowrk is almost *always* a DNS resolution problem. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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