[gentoo-user] Re: emerging squid indefinitely

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:53:50 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/11/2015 13:30, lee wrote:
> > walt <w41ter@gmail.com> writes:
> >   
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:39:01 +0100
> >> lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >>  
> >>>
> >>> ...  
> >>

> >>
> >> Any unusual network activity?  (DNS lookups that shouldn't be
> >> happening, etc.)   
> > 
> > There's nothing suspicious in the firewall log and no unexpected DNS
> > queries.  
> 
> Ignore DNS, it has absolutely nothing to do with creating a group. A
> common human trait in dealing with problems with unknown causes is to
> start investigating all manner of weird and entirely unrelated things.

And Happy Thanksgiving to you, grouchy old fart living somewhere south
of the equator where no one celebrates Thanksgiving :)

IIRC I learned about DNS queries causing delays directly from you.

Well, maybe it was some other old fart on this list.