hi. the problem i am experiencing is as follows:- if our mail server is receiving mail from our isp via etrn, local client connections to the server are slow (connected,............waiting, waiting,waiting, then it finally connects - the send receive is really fast); when the server is not connected to our isp it's really, really fast. i have included the -H -R options in tcpserver. i have found that if i remove any entries from dns (the dns entries in there were the addesses of our isp's dns servers) this problem no longer persists, but when issuing the etrn command we cannot specify the server name we must use the ip address? our router does nat? any ideas? richard.
