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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!yale!oitnews.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!giffin.student.harvard.edu!user From: giffin@fas.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: network hangs Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 04:27:12 -0500 Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 13 Message-ID: <giffin-2103970427120001@giffin.student.harvard.edu> References: <01bc347a$00837180$e2206dc2@rbsoen> <slrn5j1ccq.2pa.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> NNTP-Posting-Host: giffin.student.harvard.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37501 In article <slrn5j1ccq.2pa.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt>, feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) wrote: > Bet that those long times are your DNS timing out. Telnet to the > IP, if you get an instant connection then its your DNS. ... however, i think telnet and just about any other network service is going to do reverse lookup of the incoming IP for any connection, so if the reverse lookup service is slow you could get hanging even if you telnet to the IP address. right? daniel