From: "Geo" 

I changed a setting on the server so it no longer does a reverse lookup on
the connecting IP address, see if it's still doing the slow thing.

Geo.

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c58641{at}w3.nls.net...
> I have problems fetching messages from the Barkto server. What I know
> about my Linux Thunderbird slowness problem:
>
> 1) The problem is specific to the Barkto server. I do not see
> performance problems with newsgroups.borland.com or news.microsoft.com.
>
> 2) The problem does not affect the first message I click on.
>
> 3) Messages I click on soon after the first message take about 30
> seconds to load.
>
> 4) If I click on a single message and then wait 15 minutes before
> clicking on the second message then the second message loads quickly.
>
> 5) Doing dig news.barkto.com returns DNS look-ups that average around 20
> msec with 87 msec as the highest number. So DNS does not appear to be
> the problem.
>
> 6) Adding an entry for news.barkto.com into /etc/hosts did not help any.
>
> 7) I enabled ICMP in the Netgear FVG318 VPN Firewall box. It did not help.
>
> 8) I unchecked "Enable Stealth Mode". It did not help.
>
> So why would fetching a second message take so long?

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