Subject: Re: Slow in accepting connections
To: Nicholas James Humfrey <njh1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/30/1998 10:41:21
Nicholas James Humfrey wrote:
> 
>    I am running NetBSD/mac68k on a MacIIsi with an Apple Ethernet card, I have
>    setup apache on it to act as a proxy server for the other machines on the
>    network, this works very well and very fast. However when using other services
>    like Telnet or FTP, and the IMAP host there seem to be long delays before the
>    host responds to the connection, so very often the client timesout. There are
>    also very long delays when running the netstat command.

This is more of a shot in the dark, but it sounds like some kind of a
reverse name lookup problem.  Is inetd supposed to do reverse name
lookups when accepting connection?  That I'm not sure, though...

Ken