I n i t i a l c o n n e c t i o n

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:05:36PM -0500, Javed E. Malik wrote:
> I was pinging the following site
> 
> ping -s www.sun.com
> 
> It takes time to open the connection in the beginning. Once the connections
> is open it takes normal time. Also with traceroute from hop to hop.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Javed

No, the initial time is for the DNS name-to-IP address translation.
After that, DNS is not involved at all.

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