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From: tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System VERY SLOW
Date: 12 Nov 1995 22:21:30 +0100
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In article <30A56147.6D28@mcs.com> Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> writes:

> I just changed /etc/sysconfig to make an IP address change (I'm using a 
> different network number).  Now when I boot my system, it takes a couple of 
> minutes after it says that it's loading sendmail to come up to the login 
> prompt.  After I login it takes a few minutes again to run Pine.  Lastly, so 
> far anyway, when I TELNET from another machine it takes a couple of minutes 
> to connect and when I list the connections, my TELNET connection shows up as 
> coming from a virtual console.  Anyone have any ideas what gives?  All I did 
> was change the IP address in /etc/sysconfig.

Have your DNS administrator fix the in-addr.arpa mapping for
your new addres. Your new address can not be reverse-mapped to
your fully qualified domainname.

-t

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