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Andrew Mather <mathera@woody.agvic.gov.au_NO_SPAM_THANX> writes:

> G'day,
> 
> Here's one for the networking gurus.
> 
> I have a small LAN of 2 machines.  One exclusively RH4.1 with 2.0.30
> kernel, compiled for IP Masqerading.  This machine acts as my Internet
> gateway and Linux Server generally.  
> 
> The other machine runs Win95/RH4.1.
> 
> The problem is that it takes AGES to connect between the local machines.
> If the PPP link is up, it's quick as you like, but otherwise, it's 90 or
> more secs.  Once the connection is actually made, eveything is nice and
> quick.
> 

Your linux machine is trying to do a reverse dns lookup on the ip of the
win95 machine, but can't contact a nameserver.  When the ppp link is up, it
gets a negative response right away, but when it's down, it has to wait for
the connection to time out.  Add an entry in /etc/hosts for the win95
client, and the problem should go away.

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