> I had also the same problem when installing NetBSD. Pings took too
> long to respond and sometimes they worked and others didn't. As I
> think you've been told already, this is a DNS resolution timeout or
> something related.
>
> All of this problems where gone for me when I run named, the daemon
> for name-resolution.
>
> /usr/sbin/named

OK  will check the manpage for "named" to see how it can be turned ON.

> Hope this helps...

wait for my response

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