nntp.dragonflybsd.org slowness?

[David Cuthbert]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    It should be instantanious.  Try telneting directly to the nntp port
    (119) on nntp.dragonflybsd.org and issuing a few commands manually.
    e.g.:
idiom:/home/dillon> telnet nntp.dragonflybsd.org 119
Trying 216.240.41.25...
Connected to crater.dragonflybsd.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 crater_reader.dragonflybsd.org NNRP Service Ready (posting ok).
It's taking ~30 seconds between the telnet and getting the banner line.
Watching it via Ethereal shows:
1 0.000000  TCP   3144 > nntp [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=65535 Len=0 MSS=1460
2 0.055418  TCP   nntp > 3144 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=4096 Len=0 MSS=1460
3 0.055688  TCP   3144 > nntp [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=65535 Len=0
4 30.181944 NNTP  Response: 200 crater_reader.dragonflybsd.org NNRP ...
The reason why it's taking ~30 seconds to pull up an article is because 
Thunderbird is (for whatever stupid reason) making multiple connections 
while I'm reading.

I suspect part of the issue could be that inetd on your end is trying to 
do a reverse lookup on my IP and timing out -- alas, whatever service 
they have here has not set up reverse addresses in their nameserver.