On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Jan dela Cruz wrote:
> hello. just curious. what could be the reason when you have a linux box
> within your LAN and some services (eg. telnet, ftp, smtp, pop) respond
> rather slowly? but when you ping / trace , there are no apparent delays or
> network traffic, because its a LAN.
>
if the delay is seen at the start of the connection but not during data
transfers, it's most likely a dns problem <-- annoying.
if the delay persists even during data transfers, try doing ping with
bigger packet sizes (ping -s 1450) to detect packet loss not apparent
with small packets.
pong
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