Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!haven!umd5!rbn From: rbn@umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Possible routing problem. Message-ID: <6937@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 23 Jul 90 02:33:26 GMT References: <7767@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Organization: BDS Systems, Sterling, VA Lines: 7 This is probably one of those implementations that insists on looking up you IP address and resolving it to a name before going any farther. You're new machine probably is not in the IN-ADDR domain tree or the servers are placed such that the name is not easily resolvable. It just wastes time trying to figure it out. -Ron