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From: sp@labtam.oz (Stephen Prince)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Delay in connecting to nntpd
Summary: I don't think it's the name server
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Date: 24 Nov 89 05:56:28 GMT
References: <26138@andante.UUCP> <EMV.89Nov20231642@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <EMV.89Nov20231642@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <26138@andante.UUCP> fox@andante.UUCP (David Fox) writes:
>
>   I have recently compiled and installed nntp-1.5.7, and it works
>   well except for a thirty second delay in connection. 

We are experiencing the same problem.

>Did you build nntp with a -lresolv ?  Do you have a working name
>server?  This might be the problem.

No, I don't think this is the problem. We're using a version of Lachman's
TCP for SysV running on i386 and ns32332 machines, which doesn't have a 
name server (yet).

/sp