I think David is correct. DNS can be the cause of your long delays, specially with traceroute. You could also asign a higher periority to your traceroute and ping packets but then you'll lose the purpose of these tools... Why do you need ping and traceroute to work fast? Ramin On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:13:57PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: > Alexandra Alvarado wrote: > > > > Hello, i have a very big problem, i hope somebody solve my problem, when > > i configure cbq it works fine but when i executed ping it turns to slow, > > I NEED the PING and TRACEROUTE works so fast, how can i do that?. > > > > for traceroute, try: traceroute -n <Target> > > pings will be slow if the pipe is clogged, not much you can do about > it. If you just mean it's slow to start, that's the initial DNS > lookup. If you mean after the DNS lookup, the normally induced latency > is a rather direct measure of how clogged the pipe is. > > Ciao, > > David A. Bandel > -- > Focus on the dream, not the competition. > -- Nemesis Racing Team motto
