| Stephen Gran on 26 Jun 2006 18:31:02 -0000 |
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:21:38PM -0400, Douglas Muth said: > On 6/26/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >> > Like I said, the problem does not seem to be data transfer speed, but > >> > delays initiating connection with the host. > >> > >> Ping a host by name, then ping the host by IP. Paste the results. I'm > >> guessing that name resolution is a problem. > > I don't think we're going to be able to see if name resolution is a > problem via ping. My understanding is that name resolution is > performed ONCE, when ping is started, then the IP is pinged from there > on out. So, even if there were a name resolution issue, there would > be a delay before the first ICMP echo packet is sent, which would not > have any effect on the roundtrip times. This is not strictly accurate. It is for ping -n $hostname, but ping (without the -n) does a PTR query for each packet to display the rDNS of the host you're pinging. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "Never give in. Never give in. Never. | | steve@lobefin.net | Never. Never." -- Winston Churchill | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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