[Techtalk] Beyond personal -> large scale Linux usage

Scott scott at scottah.com
Mon Aug 12 14:15:00 EST 2002


Hi Jenn-

I did that.  The hosts are all in /etc/resolv.conf and still the long 
pauses.  I am installing Suse 8.0 right now and will test with that again.  
Before when I tested with Suse there were no pauses, only Mandrake.

-Scott




On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Davis, Jennifer wrote:

> I concur with Katherine.  I had that issue on my network until I put in
> records for all machines in /etc/resolv.conf on the server and it worked
> fine.  Strangely, it was only Mandrake that gave me trouble like that.
> 
> Jenn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katherine Spice [mailto:k.spice at acu.ac.uk]
> Sent: 2002 Aug 12 11:40
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Beyond personal -> large scale Linux usage
> 
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> This sounds to me like it *could* be DNS. I had a similar problem
> recently, while trying to connect to a server via telnet or ftp - it
> would take varying amounts of time to return a login prompt with telnet,
> but once I was logged in it was fine, and the ftp client just kept
> returning login timeouts. It turned out that the nameserver it was
> trying to talk to (to identify the machine I was coming from - I think
> is is what is meant by reverse dns? :-) was down, and once it was
> changed it was fine. I *think* you can identify/change the nameservers
> used by editing /etc/resolv.conf - but networking's not my strongest
> point and if I'm wrong someone please correct me!
> 
> > 3)There are very long pauses when connecting to it for POP3 or FTP, up
> > to one minute.  Once connected it is fine, but I have even been talking
> > with a Mandrake engineer trying to figure out the problem and he can't
> > seem to figure it out either.
> 
> HTH,
> Katherine
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