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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
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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