Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have sort of a weird one here. On my network, I have my firewall, > which has 3 interfaces. eth0 to the internal network, eth1 to the DMZ > with a wireless access point hanging off of it, and eth2 out to the > interwebs.
> My workstation is on the internal network, and i have a Nokia N900 on > the wifi. I saw in the backup reports that the Nokia failed to back up > because of long ping times. So I pinged it, and while every ping came > back, and the "time=" looked normal, it was running at about 1/3 > speed. I tried a combination of pings and found the following: > * Pings from my workstation to the Nokia by hostname are slow; > * Pings from the firewall are normal; > * Pings from the access point are normal; > * Pings from the workstation by IP are normal. > Now, I thought it might be an issue on my dns. It wasn't. The DNS responds > normally with 1msec query times. What DNS queries did you test? Name-to-IP or IP-to-name? I once experienced strange ping slowness, because ping was trying to reverse-resolve the IP of the returned ICMP package every time. The slowness was caused by a misconfigured bind, refusing to answer the request, causing a 5 second delay every time. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/0a666jao0...@mids.svenhartge.de