Re: Freebsd 5.2.1 Performance Woes

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:59:38 -0700
To: E.Schuele@Computer.Org

    On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
    > Well... you can't get much newer to BSD than me. So, most likely I have no
    > place in this thread at all (please be gentle). And I certainly do not
    > want to get in the middle of something that appears to be on the virge of
    > becoming personal...
    >
    > But....
    >
    > I was experiencing very VERY poor performance TCP/IP wise, untill I dug up
    > a tip from google....
    > Someone mentioned that many ISPs do not fully support IPv6, and that 5.2.1
    > would try to use it first.... and then after a timeout it would try IPv4.

    No, that's referring to order of DNS lookups and your ISP's broken
    nameserver, not TCP/IP performance.

    Kris

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