Hello,

The delay is going to depend on a few things, such as the speed of your network, and the protocols associated with it. For example, I think Appletalk packets time out after 30 - 45 seconds. I remember the days of OS 9 looking and waiting for a server before the connection timed out. Just had to sit there and wait. Appletalk was designed in the day that networks were *not* reliable, such as dialups and phonenet, where delays and confusion were part of the expected interference.

I am noticing OS X taking time resolving DNS names. Seems that the timeout is too short or something. Not good.

Have a good one,

Christian