It takes ages before download begins

[Placemaster]

I have managed to install sabnzb+ 0.5.3 on freenas. It works well but it takes ages before the actual download starts.
First I tried the 119 port with a normal connection. After reading some info in this forum I switched to SSL connection.
Also I have limited the number of connections to 8. My usenet supplier is newsconnection and they offer 16 connections. I have the 150mbit connection.
My internet connection is 60mbit.

Does anyone has the same issues?

When the download starts my speeds are fine.

[shypike]

The delay could be caused by a mis-configured DNS.
What happens if you use the numerical IP address of your Usenet server instead of its normal name?

[Placemaster]

I have tried the numerical IP adress but it looks like it doesn't solve the issue

[shypike]

We see this problem (except for the numerical IP) in varying degrees.
On Windows DNS resolving is instantaneous, on OSX it takes less than a second.
On the Unix variants it can take anything between seconds and minutes.
Very likely a problem with the Python library (or the way we use it).
We will look at this for a future release.

[Placemaster]

Right now it is working ok. After selecting the nzb it starts directly with the download.
I have only changed the newsserver adress into numerical.
At the time I did that it did not make any change.

So I assume that it was linked to a issue at the provider site.