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.
Is ping trying to do a reverse DNS lookup? Some versions of ping do
that by default, so it can display the domain name instead of the IP
address, and one has to specify -n as well as the numeric IP address
to stop that.
Best wishes from Riley.
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