Re: Slow linux server

[Sean /The RIMBoy/ <sean@rimboy.com>]

I was actually going to suggest this very thing, but then the email
crossed the list about Mars_nwe, I figured you had your culprit.  Tis the
life of reverse DNS.

Anyway, poke around in /etc/rc.d/init.d and see if there is some sort of
reference to mars_nwe ... if there is stop it.  Usually it is via

/etc/rc.d/init.d/process(server) stop

ie, if it was named mars_nwe in init.d

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mars_nwe stop

From there you should be able to remove it... Although I have not done
that myself.  Anyone care to clarify?

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Alan Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Walker West wrote:
> > Alan:
> > 
> > I'm a lurker on the SILUG mailing list; I was a member of the EASUG
> > group that Steve started in Evansville.  I've had the same problem when
> > the client machines weren't set up in reverse DNS or the hosts file. 
> > Just to experiment, try adding one of the workstations to your hosts
> > file and then telnet in from that client.
> 
> Actually, you might have hit the nail on the head.  Later today I got to
> looking through the logs and the machine spent quite a bit of time trying to
> hit a non-existant name server.  Kaskaskia College had to change the ip's of
> all the machines on campus including its local nameserver which does the
> reverse DNS.  After I changed the DNS server on the slow machine, it speeded
> up quite a bit.

Sean...

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