Hello.

I was having problems connecting to mysql (3.22.32) using jdbc drivers
(running on the packaged sun-jdk-1.3.0).  Connecting to the database
takes (consistently) 60.500 seconds, give or take 100ms.

I managed to track the problem down to java socket creation: it takes
the same amount of time (60.5s) to connect to port 25 of various
machines.  One thing my testing did discover is that trying to connect
to a nonexistant host name fails "immediately".

Perhaps the 60-second delay is due to rdns problems in the linux
resolver..

What I'm really interested in knowing is how I can get a suite of
network testing binaries that work with the suse_linux-6.4 packages.
I already tried compiling netbsd's ping.c using the gcc in
suse_devel-6.4, but if course it depends on special netbsd headers
which suse-linux hasn't yet adopted. :)

Thanks for any help or clues you might have!