On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Jorge.
>
> >>> Why does the modem takes so long to transmit when I make a Ping,
> >>> Telnet, Ftp, etc? It doesn`t tramsmit right after issuing the
> >>> command.
>
> > Possably your system is trying to do a DNS lookup to resolve the
> > hostname of the target address, is there any difference in speed
> > by doing ping 44.xx.xx.xx in stead of ping ct1abc ??
>
> > I don't have problems with DNS lookups because I have the
> > machines in my /etc/hosts.
>
> That doesn't automatically follow - I had precicely that problem with
> one of my systems a while back, where I had an entry in /etc/hosts but
> still couldn't telnet to the host.
But the problem is not there. I do a PING with an IP address and still
big delays to transmit. I do PING with 5 secs interval. It never sends the
Ping every 5 secs. Sometimes it only transmits a block of 3 frames after
15-20secs.
Regards,
Jorge Matias
P.S.: Is there anyone over here using YAM 9k6 (serial) with Linux?
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