Re: Slow ping?

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Subject: Re: Slow ping?
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:57:43 -0400
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Can anybody explain why the first ping takes 5 times longer, while getting
> more than 5 times faster ping replies?

Because ping does a DNS lookup, which has to time out as the first IP
has no reverse DNS assignment. ping -n.

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