On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:33:27 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
> Anything that takes 5 minutes usually turns out to be associated with
> DNS time-outs. I don't know specifically where to look, but things might
> speed up a lot if you specify the news and mail servers as fully qualified
> domain names, maybe with the dot at the end. Unfortunately, there are a
> lot of config files that get involved in one way or another with these
> services, so it could be something in /etc/ or maybe a file in your home
> directory that sets up a news reader or a mail client.
I am not sure this is the problem. The connection with the servers is
established very quickly, it is the actual transfer of data which is
slow. It _must_ be a masquerading problem, as a direct connection from
the Linux masq box is very quick, but from the Win95 boxes behind the
masq the transfer is very slow. Could this still be DNS? I am not
sure.
It's all still very slow anyway. I have noticed that news servers will
'speed up' if left to crawl along for a little while. This all strikes
me as very bizarre behaviour.
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(o_ Ben Williams _o)
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