On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 04:57:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Can anybody explain why the first ping takes 5 times longer, while getting > > more than 5 times faster ping replies? > > Because ping does a DNS lookup, which has to time out as the first IP > has no reverse DNS assignment. ping -n.
Thanks Joey, now I got some reading to do ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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