On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > Hi misc, > > I noticed way back with 3.8 that netstat would sometimes hang on me > for a very long time (over two minutes) before spitting out the Active > Internet Connections list; once it shows that though, it shows the > rest of the lists in an instant. I thought it was just a fluke so I > ignored it. But now I've seen it on other systems too, so I'm > wondering what's up. > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > I've search the archives with "netstat hang" and "netstat freeze" and > found nothing. >
What are the actual options you pass to netstat? You know that netstat does DNS lookups by default? Those can cause some massive delays if something does not resolve. -- :wq Claudio

