Maybe it starts counting time from the beginning of the DNS lookup. Ed
Robert Citek wrote: > What's wrong with this picture? > > Notice the time if I ping a machine by IP address: > > $ ping -f -c 1000 10.4.0.4 > PING 10.4.0.4 (10.4.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data. > --- 10.4.0.4 ping statistics --- > 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 383ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.086/0.332/29.934/2.000 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma > 0.384/3.827 ms > > Now, notice the time if I ping by name: > > $ ping -f -c 1000 foo > PING foo.com (10.4.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data. > --- foo.com ping statistics --- > 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 24598ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.092/0.100/0.133/0.010 ms, ipg/ewma > 24.622/0.100 ms > > A 64 fold increase in the amount of time. > > Any thoughts? > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
