On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, David Maxwell wrote:

>It's reverse DNS lookups. When you connect, your NetBSD box wants to figure
>out the NAME that goes with the IP that is asking to connect. Once it
>caches that information, connections will be fast, until the cache entry is
>timed out ("idle for an hour or so") - then the first connect will be slow again.

This is a very valid thing to look at.  I've also seen newer NetBSD
installations spin waiting for the Kerberos auth stuff to time out.
It's a little annoying that so much stuff is Kerberized by default.

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