Milind wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 18:24, you wrote: > > Rohan Almeida wrote: > > > Dayalan Manohar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Sometimes (mostly always, nowadays) our network is plagued by long > > > > timeouts when we want to access pop,telnet,smtp,ftp and even slight > > > > delay with ssh.This problem occurs whenever there is a change in the > > > > weather or due to some unknown reason. > > > > > > Check u're DNS Server settings. > > > Maybe name resolutions and reverse name lookups > > > are consuming time. > > > > > > -- > > > > I put in a forward and reverse zone for all the internal machines still > > the same sluggish behavior.finally i solved the problem temporarily with > > an incredibly large /etc/hosts file.Now I get my mails in a flash. > > -dayalan > > > > > > Since U had no problem when U tried Ur hand with /etc/hosts, so Ur problem > lies in the DNS Server configuration. > Check it out. >
Hi, The problem was due to a misconfigured hosts file.People beware this type of error. /etc/hosts was as follows 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost It should have also had the line 127.0.0.1 alabama.innomedia.soft.net alabama or 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost alabama.innomedia.soft.net alabama if you want it all in one line. (My hostname was alabama) Regards, Dayalan BTW Now the DNS too is working fine so I've truncated my hosts file accordingly. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
