On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:36:25PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > on B ping A:
> > PING ianzag (192.168.100.37): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.37: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.444 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.37: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=57.479 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.37: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=44.911 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.37: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=46.508 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.37: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.004 ms
> 
> That looks rather like a reverse DNS issue.

No, that would affect the time spent by ping to display the result,
but not the RTT of the packet itself.

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