[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Bug Hunter]

  did it come back with a 7?  Is the address in your hosts file a 4?

  whenever you make a pop3 connection, what does /var/log/messages say?
if you have /var/log/daemon.log, what does that say.

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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> 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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