[Users] Network question

[Tim Nelson]

----- Original Message -----
> I had a power failure in my home a couple of weeks ago, and ever
> since, VMs on my OpenVZ machine. I noticed that it would take several
> seconds to log into VMs. However, I have just deployed Puppet and
> really noticed large amounts of lag that for the few recipes I have
> written so far. The puppetmaster What would normally take 1-2 seconds
> or less in other environs takes anywhere from 30-40 seconds to up to
> 250 seconds to run a catalog. I suspect that it is making multiple
> connections, each suffering the lag.
> 

It sounds like you're having DNS resolution failures and the delay you experience is how long it takes for the queries to timeout.

--Tim