This one time, at band camp, Paul E Condon said: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:26:26PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Amir Tal <tal@whatsup.org.il> writes: > > > > > reverse DNS people. > > > the host machine does not know who is calling, and it takes time to verify. > > > add the calling machine to /etc/hosts of the hosting machine, and your > > > problems will go away ;) > > > > Both machines are included in /etc/hosts on each machine. > > > > > On Sunday 25 August 2002 19:07, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > >> Are you using ppp to connect to the internet? and are you using diald to > > >> start ppp? If so, try an experiment: turn off diald by running as root: > > >> /etc/init.d/diald stop > > >> With diald stopped, is there still a delay? If not you are probably > > >> experiencing the same problem that I am experiencing. I don't know the > > >> solution, but if we keep in touch ... > > > > I connect to the internet with dhcp, and the connection is always up. > > The two machines in question are on my localnet, and the connection > > should not go through the internet. > > > > Seems like the setups are rather different, but the reasoning is flawed. > Also in my case the connection 'should not go through the internet', but... > Like I said, I don't know how to fix it, but I do know that everything I > have been told to do, I have done, and it is still slow when I have the > possibility of internet access. When I have the possibility of internet > access, the logon procedure seems to block until something has been checked > on the internet. > > I've made enough dumb mistakes in my time to believe that I am doing something > stupid, but now I see someone else having a similar problem. I really want to > find out how Bob fixes his version of the problem. > > Also, candidate explanations should work for both setups. Just as a thought - /etc/host.conf should have 'order hosts,bind' to tell it to use /etc/hosts before doing DNS lookups - does it? HTH, Steve -- Repel them. Repel them. Induce them to relinquish the spheroid. -- Indiana University football cheer
Attachment:
pgpISQmbYsuAS.pgp
Description: PGP signature