I have three NetBSD 1.1 i386 machines.  When I connect to two of the   
machines, I can almost instantly send my mail.  However, on beta, it   
takes 20 to 30 seconds to get a response.

I.e.  I Telnet to beta, on port 25, from another (any) machine, I wait 20   
to 30 seconds before I get the welcome message.  However, if I Telnet on   
beta to beta on port 25, the response is instant.

I and running a news server on this machine also, but just 5000 groups.   
 Killing news and other processes doesn't seem to help, what do you think   
is up?

I have a Pentium 90 with 64Megs of memory, and everything else seems   
snappy.  I can POP, FTP, Telnet, etc. in and get immediate server, so I'm   
sure it's not the machine being overloaded.

any ideas?

jam