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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!Mercury.mcs.com!elazich From: Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System VERY SLOW Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 22:14:34 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951119221217.24011A-100000@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <199511190438.OAA03530@dyson.brisnet.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: elazich@Mercury.mcs.com In-Reply-To: <199511190438.OAA03530@dyson.brisnet.org.au> On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, root wrote: > In article <30A56147.6D28@mcs.com> you wrote: > : 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. > > : Eli > > -- > > What may be happening, in changing you IP address you have not had the > changes done in your DNS and the reverse DNS lookups are timing out. > > Sysadmin at the Dyson Sphere > root@dyson.brisnet.org.au > [041 464 5365] > Thanks for the suggestion, it turns out that the last thing I thought to look for turned out to be causing the problem. That was the resolv.conf file which was still pointing to the old address. Changed it and it worked like a charm. Now, any ideas on why a message I had sent to myself on my system keeps getting sent over and over. I'm just running the default sendmail config, added a couple of aliases and now the same message keeps getting delivered. Eli