On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:36:44PM +0100, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 07:09:21PM +0100, John Looney wrote:
> > Hmm. Just noticed some more ICMP replies. SEQ=1,2,3 and
> > time=34,74000,148000ms respectively.
>> Hmmm. 148000 == 74000 * 2. Doesn't this look like an
> exponential back-off progression?
Turned out that it was because for some stupid reason, ping tries to do a
DNS lookup on the IP it's trying to ping. So, the 74000ms is the 74
seconds before it decides that it can't resolve the hostname. And, it
reports the time as the time to ping *and* the time to resolve the
hostname, if it's not in the NS cache. And in that case, the nameserver
was over a router that was misconfigured.
Gah.
Kate
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