On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Greg Evans wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> glad to say that my ipnat setup seems to be working ok..I can get to the 
> net on both machines, the Mac (running OS 8.5) at 192.168.1.2 and the 
> NetBSD (running 1.3.3) box at 216.164.32.41 (also 192.168.1.1)
> 
> My question comes as net access from the mac is screaming fast, just like 
> I was connected to my cable modem directly, however on the Q610 (NetBSD 
> box) net access is _very_ slow
> 
> for an example:
> 
> telnetting to my work machne via the domain name:
> 
> NetBSD: 12 seconds to get a login prompt
> Mac   : 3 seconds to get a login prompt
> 
> telnetting to my work machine via IP address:
> 
> NetBSD: 11 seconds to get a login prompt
> Mac   : 3 seconds to get a login prompt

Shoots down questions about DNS problems!

Try tracedump on your outbound interface. Just try telnetting from the
mac, and then from NetBSD, and see which part of the exchange takes the
extra time.

Take care,

Bill