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Re: Help with slow nntp response
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:25:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Even when I post this message, I have taken too long in its composition.
> It'll take a couple of minutes to connect to LUGNET.COM -- but the actual
> transfer after connecting will be quite fast.
Two minutes to make an NNTP connection? Wow, that's broken. Should be 1-3
seconds, tops. Hmmmm.
> Todd indicates that it's not something on the LUGNET.COM end, but rather
> some clogged router between you and LUGNET which has no problems with Web
> traffic but takes offense at nntp packets.
Did I say that?! I don't remember saying that. I don't understand TCP/IP
deeply enough to make a statement like that. I wonder if the high message
counts in some groups are starting to slow things down.
--Todd
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| I use NNTP all the time and don't see this problem. It takes about 3 seconds to establish the NNTP connection between my laptop and lugnet.com and then I can scan and download the 39 groups I'm subscribed to in just a couple of minutes. Mike -- Mike (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Help with slow nntp response
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| (...) Jeremy, what newsreader are you using and how are you launching an NNTP connection? What OS are you running? Do you see this from work and/or from home? Are you behind a firewall? What happens when you access the NNTP server from port 1119 or (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Help with slow nntp response
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| (...) Using Netscape 3.01 at work on an RS/6000 with AIX 4.1.5, behind a firewall, I do see some situations where a large number of messages in the group slows down processing. It can usually be tied to a getting the message headers for a group (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Help with slow nntp response
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| (...) Fast HTTP response, slow NNTP response. I bet if you can get new messages headers in an ng, then you can load a message fairly quickly just after that. I see this all the time. If I take too long reading a message, something times out and the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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