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Re: Internal Network Slowness

To: George Nelson <ghnelson@uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Internal Network Slowness
From: "David S." <dgjs@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:55:56 -0800
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
In-reply-to: <002b01c0a0fa$ec803ff0$4500a8c0@tragichero>; from ghnelson@uiuc.edu on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:21:53PM -0600
References: <002b01c0a0fa$ec803ff0$4500a8c0@tragichero>
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:21:53PM -0600, George Nelson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have ipnat and ipf running on my bsd machine.  The machines on the
> internal network can access the internet.  Life is good.  Except when I try
> to connect from one of the internal machines to the bsd machine, it takes
> forever.  Now I'm using a 100baseT internal network so this should be a
> fairly quick logon process.  Any ideas on how to fix this slowness?

I'd guess that your internal hosts can't resolve the name of your bsd
gateway machine.  Put "192.168.0.1 borrowedtime" in those machine's 
host files (databases, whatever), or run a nameserver for you internal
network.

David S.

> 
> 
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.0.1 borrowedtime borrowedtime.mydomain.net mydomain.net
> 192.168.0.1 borrowedtime borrowedtime.mydomain.net mydomain.net
> 192.168.0.13 atrocity
> 192.168.0.69 tragichero
> external ip borrowedtime.mydomain.net mydomain.net
> 
> Let me know if more info is needed
> 
> George
> 

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