From: "Robert Comer" 

Vista seemed a bit faster, but still not near as fast as if I have a hosts entry.

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Bob Comer



"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44c588f8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>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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