The trick to getting decent performance with NetView using AIX 4.3.3 is to add
the following entry in the /etc/netsvc.conf file on every AIX host including
the NetView server (assuming it is AIX):
hosts=local4,bind4
This means that AIX 4.3.3 will use IP ver 4, which it eventually does after
first trying IP ver 6 and then timing out to drop back to ver 4. This is the
reason for the slowness.
One further matter. When using DNS on an AIX server, make certain that
/etc/hosts only contains entries for the local loopback and all host adapters,
nothing else. This results in the shortname appearing as the ipadapter label
and not the fully-qualified domain name. The shortname will resolve through
DNS.
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