From: Kai Altenfelder (zilfwhr.pfajbb@beckman.com)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 11:35:32 EET
Hello Christopher,
On Thu, Feb 15, krirf.iebnxf@corizon.com wrote:
> I posted a message perhaps a week ago asking a very similar question,
> but the answers I got lead me to think people did not understand my
> problem. I'll try again... > I am trying to run TCP/IP over a 1200bps
> ax25 connection. I am using KPC 9612s from Kantronics. I have the link
> working. The modems communicate no problem. I have the software
> working somewhat. I can ping perfectly. I ran ping for whole night and
> transfered about 800 512byte packets with ZERO errors. But, there's
do you ping your peer with "ping www.xxx.yyy.zzz" or or with its
fqdn like "ping host.some.domain"? If the first works and the latter not
it seems to be a name lookup problem / timeout. Check your entries in
/etc/hosts and the configuration of your DNS/lookups in general.
> something weird going on here. Here are several examples. I'm running
> a secondary DNS on my remote system. Of course, it tries to connect
> periodically to download the latest domain files. Well, it'll get
> started. It'll create it's temporary files, but it'll never complete
> the download. I can sit there and watch it communication over the
> connection and over 50% of the time nothing is happening! The problem is not
> because the connection is slow at 1200bps! Also telnet, if I telnet, it'll
> transfer a few initial packets and then say it's connected, then wait
> maybe thirty to fourty-five seconds doing nothing before it'll finnish
> up. and true, it often time!s out because of this. HTTP, all over again.
> Sendmail, same problem. The only thing I can do is ping! Ping works
> great!
Regards, Kai
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