It's me, O, Lord :-) I Googled the situation and found the answer: ident lookups. I have no idea what they are (right now) but I know that both POP and FTP were using and timing out on them. So I disabled them, and whamo--everything is fast again!
Thank you, self. You're very welcome, self! Miark Roses are red, violets are blue; I'm schizophrenic and so am I. On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:25:51 -0500 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 8.2 machine co-hosted in a remote state from me. When I connect > via the Web, SSH, or SMTP, it's fast. When I connect via POP3 I have to > wait about 25 seconds, and for FTP I have to wait about 10 seconds. This > has been the case for many months. There was a period of, perhaps a week > when everything was fast. But then it reverted back to "some fast, some > slow". > > It didn't make sense that it was my box, so I did a traceroute and found a > couple of places where things always slow down--all on UUNet, the network > on which my box is hosted. I called them for help, but they wouldn't look > into it because I'm not a direct customer. I then had my ISP call, and they > were told that as long as the connection _works_ we don't give a damn how > long we have to wait. > > My ISP said that if more people brought it to their attention that they > might look into it. Of course I have no idea of _really_ knowing whether > others have called about this. > > So I dunno. Any ideas? I'm really sick of waiting a half-minute to connect > to my POP server. > > Miark > >
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