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  15     <B>Scott Seufert</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] ping timeouts..">scotts at flamebait.org
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  19     <I>Wed Sep  8 01:04:41 PDT 1999</I>
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  34 <PRE>Andy Church wrote:
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  36 &lt;snip&gt;
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  38 &gt;<i> &gt;Both ircd and services are running on the same box. I originally had them communicating through localhost but switched to the IP address saince I had these ping timeouts.
  39 </I>&gt;<i>
  40 </I>&gt;<i>      Using localhost is a better idea (though I'm not sure it makes too
  41 </I>&gt;<i> much difference performance-wise).  In any case, it's not the cause of
  42 </I>&gt;<i> the ping timeout problem.
  43 </I>&gt;<i>
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  45 A better Idea than using the named address(host name) is to always use
  46 the numbered address(IP). This is for a couple reasons. One is so no DNS
  47 lookup is needed, even if you do active lookups as we do at my ISP. it
  48 still cuts out that step, and saves that little bit of time/resources. I
  49 also agree with Andy, by making the ReadTimeout longer than the ping
  50 fequency will think there is more activity than there is. The difference
  51 between using localhost(127.0.0.1) vs real IP is the number of
  52 interfaces involved, again using the numbered address with use the same
  53 interface(eth0) to talk to the server instead of going from
  54 127.0.0.1(loop back) to your ethernet card(eth0), yet another stop saved
  55 on your packets ;)
  56
  57
  58 &gt;<i>   --Andy Church
  59 </I>&gt;<i>     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at dragonfire.net</A>
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  66 hope this helps,
  67
  68 Scott Seufert
  69 aka <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">katsklaw at irc</A>
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