[ On Wednesday, July 4, Kent Stewart wrote: ]
>
> While you are worrying about it, have you tried to ping someone on the
> Internet. I get a delay of 10-15 seconds with the current -stable. On
> systems that were built 2 weeks ago, it is almost instantaneous.
>
> Kent
>
root@dolphin [/usr/src]<82># ping ftp.cdrom.com
PING wcarchive.cdrom.com (216.17.74.242): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=0 ttl=239 time=63.793 ms
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=63.832 ms
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=64.277 ms
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=64.012 ms
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=65.689 ms
64 bytes from 216.17.74.242: icmp_seq=5 ttl=239 time=63.182 ms
root@dolphin [/usr/src]<84># ping www.freebsddiary.org
PING www.freebsddiary.org (66.70.140.127): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.70.140.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=47.813 ms
64 bytes from 66.70.140.127: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=46.132 ms
64 bytes from 66.70.140.127: icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=46.058 ms
64 bytes from 66.70.140.127: icmp_seq=3 ttl=238 time=48.440 ms
64 bytes from 66.70.140.127: icmp_seq=4 ttl=238 time=46.803 ms
These times reflect "situation normal" for me ... no apparent problems.
If you mean "delay until the ping starts" it might be a difference in your DNS?
-Jr
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