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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!swrinde!pipex!sunic!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!satisfy.kiae.su!kiae!relcom!elvisti!store!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: Some problems and questions with POP3D X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: usenet@store.elvisti.kiev.ua (USENET subsystem) Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Organization: Electronni Visti InformAgency (ElVisti) Message-ID: <D2H3F9.Bzs@store.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <3eudf8$bb2@lucy.infi.net> <D2F320.BwD@indirect.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 00:45:08 GMT Lines: 19 Barnacle Wes (wes@indirect.com) wrote: [...] : : Another problem has been the time it takes to establish a connection : : with the FreeBSD box. It takes way to long when ping returns round trips : : of 0 milli seconds. Any suggestions on how to improve the connect speed. : Buy a faster computer? Pop uses TCP connections, and connection-setup : times are relatively long, especially on slow machines with a slow : kernel-calling mechanism. x86 counts as all of these. ;^) x86 is fast enough. Maybe he has a misconfigured resolver. : Wes Peters -- With best wishes -- Andrew Stesin, Elvisti.Kiev.UA sysadmin.