Re: First of the morning slow down

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Burger
Unfortunately, I know nothing of NIS...I'm afraid I'll be of no help on that one. On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 04:52:08 -0400 (AST), Luke C Gavel wrote: > >Uh, what are the thoughts on usig NIS for this, if the gentleman >in question is using host files for the local network(s)? Is >this recommended, or

Re: First of the morning slow down

2000-12-05 Thread Luke C Gavel
Uh, what are the thoughts on usig NIS for this, if the gentleman in question is using host files for the local network(s)? Is this recommended, or is it a service too insecure for a Internet gateway/firewall to be serving? Best Regards, LG On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: > Could your s

Re: First of the morning slow down

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Burger
Could your system be having trouble resolving the IPs of your other systems to domain names? That happens quite a bit...you might need to create entries in your /etc/hosts file, or update your reverse DNS file. On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Bruce Sackett wrote: > When the folks in my office first start

First of the morning slow down

2000-12-04 Thread Bruce Sackett
When the folks in my office first start up their Win PC's and check mail or telnet, or whatever, to our Red Hat 6.2 Mail Server. If you 'ping', you get a normal response, but the connection just hangs for anything else. This server runs Mail, DNS, Masquerading, etc. If you hit the web