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Re: [TCLUG:3673] TCP/IP performance problem.



On 25 Jan, Tim Neu wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Troy Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Any interesting messages in /var/log/messages when doing this? What
> 
> No unusual messages at all, in any log file that I know of (syslog,
> messages, etc.) 
> 
>> does your /etc/hosts file look like? It may not seem to be a DNS
>> problem but you might be waiting for a timeout on a lookup or reverse
>> lookup (for IP addresses). Just throwing things out there, good luck,
> 
> It could be a problem with reverse lookup...   I do have hosts.deny set to
> block everyone, then hosts.allow is set to grant access to my subnet
> only...   nslookup ipaddress should show me that reverse lookup is
> working, right? 
> 
Can you look up both directions?  nslookup machinename, nslookup IP
should both work.  I know that I had to change my DNS setup when I
setup reverse lookup.

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