At 4:24 PM -0700 9/12/99, Paul Goyette wrote:
>Probably things are trying to reverse DNS lookup (to find out where
>you're telneting etc. from) and the DNS lookup is timing out.  Do
>you have DNS (/etc/resolv.conf) set up correctly?

Ahah!  Yes, this was the problem.  I had never removed bind from
resolv.conf when I stopped using bind.  Now that I fixed that everything
has returned to normal (including pine).  Thanks you for your help,
everyone.  Now the strange question is, why in the world was pine doing
reverse dns lookups?

Ben

>
>On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Ben Zeller wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a somewhat strange problem.  Some processes on my IIci, NetBSD 1.4,
>> are incredibly slow.  The best examples are all network processes (telnetd,
>> ftpd, sshd), and the email client pine.  When I telnet into the machine,
>> for example, it takes 4 minutes, 13 seconds (average) for login to be
>> spawned.  Telnetd just sits in sleep mode the entire time. (I verified this
>> through "top".)  Likewise, when I fire up pine, the process sits in sleep
>> for _10 minutes!_ before going into run state.  By comparison, the email
>> client elm goes right into run and loads within a second.  Most programs,
>> like ps, grep, man, less, work fine.  All of the custom stuff I compiled
>> through the package system (compiled, not installed the binaries) work
>> fine, such as lynx, elm, joe, and pico, with the exception of pine.
>>
>> The machine is never less than 90% idle, and there's never a signifigant
>> dent into the 32MB of physical RAM.  This problem has been occurring for
>> about four months -- I have tried upgrading from 1.3.2 to 1.4 and building
>> my own kernel.  Neither solution helped.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced anything similar?  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Ben
>>
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