This problem also occurred a few months ago but spontaneously
resolved itself after a few cold boots, so I never found
out exactly what the problem was. Most functions have slowed
dramatically. Some examples:
If I try to ping a host on the internet (e.g. freebsd.org), I
get all the packets, but
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:17:30PM -0400, Scott wrote:
If I try to ping a host on the internet (e.g. freebsd.org), I
get all the packets, but the output of the command doesn't
begin for at least 10 seconds. If I try startx, it takes about
30 seconds just to begin to display the root window.
Yep, I would bet on DNS troubles as well...
many apps have to wait for the DNS request to time out before they continue.
Check to make sure that the DNS servers in resolv.conf are reachable by
your machine.
Tim.
At 12:17 PM 5/31/2004, Scott wrote:
This problem also occurred a few months ago but
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Scott wrote:
I can always tell when the problem will occur based upon what
happens at boot. There are no error messages, but the slowness
begins when the standard daemons are loading. Cron and sshd
load just fine, but the delay occurs as sendmail loads, and
there is another
Thanks, Matthew, you were exactly right. My ISP has given me
problems with DNS before, but it never manifested in this way.
Instead, in the middle of a browsing session both DNS servers
would fail and I would simply type in the information for a DNS
server from another ISP into resolv.conf. The
