Yet another question:
I took a look the output of netstat, and I'm surprised to see alot of
entries that seem like they might be slowing my machine down:

tcp        0      0  h42-09-15-263372.65152 proxy1.rdc1.ab.w.domai TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0  h42-09-15-263372.65154 proxy1.rdc1.ab.w.domai TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0  h42-09-15-263372.65156 proxy1.rdc1.ab.w.domai TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0  h42-09-15-263372.65158 proxy1.rdc1.ab.w.domai TIME_WAIT

There's 134 of these in total. I know h42-09-15-263372 is my machine.
proxy1.rdc1.ab.w... is one of the name servers from my ISP. What I'd liek
to know is are all these connections normal? 

Erik Huizing			4th year Computer Science
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