Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga hopelessly slow...

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 03/04/11 02:29, listbox snap net nz wrote:
> I've been struggling with Ekiga for months now. I could connect to the echo
> server and hear it speak to me, but the connection broke after the recording
> finished. I was unable to solve the problem, even with the list's help.
>
> Recently, I bought a new router in hopes of fixing the problem. I connected the
> new device and launched Ekiga (for the first time in weeks). At first I thought
> Ekiga had silently died but no, it just took it a very long time to load.
> Roughly five minutes! When it finally did load it was unusable ... couldn't even
> make an outbound connection.
>
> So the question: what could cause Ekiga to take this long to load?
>
> I'm using Mandriva 2010.2. MSec is running, and I suspect it may be involved,
> as it likes to set hosts.deny to:
> ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY
>
> I don't really know enough about msec or hosts.deny to be sure though. Anyway,
> hopefully someone out there has seen this problem before and can make a useful
> suggestion. Thanks!

Your hosts.deny seems wrong, since it has three fields, from man 
hosts_access:
  All other lines  should  satisfy  the  following  format,  things 
between  []  being optional:
  daemon_list : client_list [ : shell_command ]

Anyway, take a glance at the debug output (-d 4) if you see something 
wrong, notably look at my previous e-mailto the list  with DNS server 
lookup.  This is for the very long time to load.

As for the outbound connection, again: we need to look at the debug 
output (even if I personnally cannot guarantee to solve the problem!)

--
Eugen