On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Ben Williams wrote:
> Wonder if anyone can help me with this - I am banging my head against
> the wall.
>
> I have IP Masquerade set up and running on my small LAN. Web services
> and telnet work fine and reasonably quickly, and RealAudio and Netcast
> services are very smooth.
>
> However, nntp and pop3 requests take an age (one email takes about
> five minutes!) from any of the Win 95 machines. These connections are
> full speed when I ask the Linux box to connect (ie. telnet
> my.pop.server 110 and using it by hand) but doing the same on my Win95
> I get extremely slow response.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
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.
Jack Carroll
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