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Re: proc delays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Wed Jul 10 01:57:07 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ecki@tapac.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: 10 Jul 1996 02:57:17 GMT
Russell Berry (rberry@albany.net) wrote:
: I notice the same thing, but only when I have a ppp connection going,
: when ppp is down and I'm just connected to the local ethernet network,
: it works great. I supposed it was just because the modem ppp was so
: much slower than ethernet that it just takes a while to build the
: routes, especially if it has to access an outside nameserver to get the
: route addresses. Am I right here??
Well, perhaps your nameserver points to an address unreachable if the modem
is down, then a dns reuest will fail immediatelly with 'no route to host',
otherwise it queries the nameserer and will fail much later if the info is
not available.
Greetings
Bernd
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