On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 17:49 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
If I use a simple script for masquerading everything works fine, but if I use a more secure en complex script and I initiate a connection from a Windows-client it takes a very long time (60 seconds...) till I get a responce. After this, everything works OK (sometimes ping gives a timeout).
There's one big subject bubbling up: DNS timeouts. You could check for these by tcpdump(8)ing the connection. Make sure reverse lookup works just as well as "forward" lookup does. BTW this should be default behaviour instead of thinking about "do I have to offer reverse lookup?" ...
Please tell me if you know what this can be ;-)
If it's DNS, it's a FAQ and very commonly done wrong. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.