On 12/4/07, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > Hi misc, > > > > I noticed way back with 3.8 that netstat would sometimes hang on me > > for a very long time (over two minutes) before spitting out the Active > > Internet Connections list; once it shows that though, it shows the > > rest of the lists in an instant. I thought it was just a fluke so I > > ignored it. But now I've seen it on other systems too, so I'm > > wondering what's up. > > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > > > I've search the archives with "netstat hang" and "netstat freeze" and > > found nothing. > > > > What are the actual options you pass to netstat? > You know that netstat does DNS lookups by default? Those can cause some > massive delays if something does not resolve.
Oooooh, of course. Haha, I'm so silly, I let myself get bit by DNS. Oh well, at least it's in the archives for the next fool. -Nick