[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Neil Aggarwal]

Bug:

I did:

ping host7.homexcorp.com

It came back immediately with this result:
PING host7.homexcorp.com (192.168.1.7) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of
data.
64 bytes from host7.homexcorp.com (192.168.1.7): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128
time=0.557 ms
[More lines deleted]

But, the pop3 connections are still slow, so it does not seem like
a DNS related issue, nor a connectivity issue.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
	Neil.

--
Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Bug Hunter
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:27 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3
>
>
>
>   nope.  Dig does a query straight to a dns server.
>
>   to see if /etc/hosts is working, try
>
> ping host4.homexcorp.com
>
>   if it comes back immediately with a ping to 129.168.1.4, then hosts is
> being used on that machine.
>
>   If it hangs for 30 seconds or so, then /etc/hosts is not being used.
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>
> > Bug:
> >
> > This is strange, I added this to my /etc/hosts file:
> > 192.168.1.4 host4.homexcorp.com
> >
> > My /etc/host.conf looks like:
> > order hosts,bind
> > multi on
> >
> > I then started named by typing /etc/init.d/named start
> >
> > Then, I treid to do a reverse lookup using dig:
> > dig @127.0.0.1 -x 192.168.1.4
> >
> > Here is what I got back:
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> @127.0.0.1 -x 192.168.1.4
> > ;; global options:  printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 63996
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;4.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > 168.192.in-addr.arpa.   10800   IN      SOA     prisoner.iana.org.
> > hostmaster.root-servers.org. 2002040800 1800 900 604800 604800
> >
> > ;; Query time: 1061 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> > ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 16 20:09:33 2002
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 119
> >
> > There is no answer section.  I thought that the hosts file
> should have been
> > checked first and then I would get an answer.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > 	Neil.
>
>
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