Ok, with tcpdump I get a lot of things i don't understand. But I think it has to do with my DNS. So you're right! After 2 minutes and when there was a line with "ServFail", I get my news. So how can I turn this off? Thanks Marius ---------- Original Text ---------- From: "Julian Assange" <proff@iq.org>, on 3/24/01 12:16 PM: "Marius Schaefer" <mschaefer@tuvps.co.jp> writes: > OK, thanks a lot! > But how can I disable Ident lookups? > > in my config I found this: > > # perform identd lookups > rfc931 no > > # timeout waitung for ident lookups > rfc9311Timeout 5 > > so does it mean it is allready disalbed? > thx > marius Then they should already be disabled, so your probably is likely to be DNS resolution. Perhaps you can check this by tcpdump port 53 udp traffic when nntpcache gets a client connect? -- Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and proff@iq.org |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery