Re: Sluggish Login

From: Lieberg, Patrick (plieberg@EV3.NET)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 16:35:20 EDT


In that case, I doubt it has anything to do with DNS resolution.

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Karl Jones
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Sluggish Login

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Yes. Same person, same PC, going to same AIX host, different emulators.

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From: "John Jolet" <john.jolet@FXFN.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Sluggish Login

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> one question..are both of these emulators running on the same box?
> wouldn't you expect a dns issue to manifest for both those if they are
> running on the same box?
>
> Lieberg, Patrick wrote:
>
> >It could be a reverse lookup issue with DNS. You can disable that
temporarily by changing the line in inetd.conf to 'telnetd -a -c'. This
pinpointed the problem for me one time and I found there was a definite
host-resolution issue.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
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> >Karl Jones
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> >To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> >Subject: Sluggish Login
> >
> >
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> >We have two software applications running on the same AIX 4.3 box. Each
is
> >accessed with a different emulator (don't ask why...): IceTCP and InVue.
> >Performance has been fine and identical through each until lately.
> >
> >In recent weeks, it seems as though the delay for get a login prompt
through
> >InVue has gotten increasingly sluggish (up to 5 minutes, I hear) while
> >IceTCP has no signficant delay. Once logged in, normal performance
ensues.
> >
> >My first thought was DNS resolution but, though I haven't checked
> >configuration (this is a remote site), if I remember correctly, it is set
to
> >a 10.0.0.x address which has not changed. Also, I still wonder why it
would
> >be _increasingly_ slower rather than just an abrupt change.
> >
> >My next thought is that a file system is running low on space for temp
files
> >but I checked that and see nothing.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
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