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Re: Netstat freezing...



On Tue, March 30 1999, James Olin Oden <joden@lee.k12.nc.us> wrote:
|Sometimes when I run netstat it will print a few of the connections, and then 
|it
|will pause for sometimes as long as a minute.  I am running a RH 5.0
|installation.  My kernel is 2.0.31 (old but not ancient).  It is using one of
|Boca's NE2000 compatible cards.  Does anyone have any ideas why it might pause
|like this?

As someone else pointed out, it most certainly a delay caused by
failed reverse mapping of addresses back to host names.  Try running
netstat with "-n" and see if it still gets stuck (but you won't get
the translation back to host names).

--Amos

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