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- From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: SCO TCP/IP troubles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.192542.20096@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:25:42 GMT
- References: <DEAN.92Aug19122219@world.std.com>
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- In <DEAN.92Aug19122219@world.std.com> dean@world.std.com (Dean S Banfield) writes:
-
- >We're enjoying SCO UNIX V R3.2.2, but when we run the name server daemon
- >(named) our TCP/IP telnet access has slowed markedly. It takes over 1 minute
- >to receive the login prompt from the system for a TCP/IP connection. Removing
- >the name server speeds us back up again.
-
- >Any configuration changes which can be suggested to improve this problem.
-
- Have you set up the file /etc/resolv.conf to point at your local
- nameserver? In theory, you don't really need it for DNS to work
- "properly", but in practice setting this up has cured problems on some
- of our machines that sound remarkably similar to what you're
- experiencing.
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