On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jonathan Fuerth wrote:

> 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..
>
	Possible - can you tcpdump the traffic between your box and the
	remote system. Maybe run named in debug mode and/or have it on
	a remote box so you can see the traffic there too.

> 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. :)

	Does ping etc from the suse base sets work?

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