On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, JonesMB wrote: > I have setup a couple of Debian/Linux systems in the lab at work. > They are used for many things, including acting as telnet and FTP > servers for various test programs. The test engineers complain that > when an attempt is made to connect to the Linux box, it takes a while > before they get the login prompt. Is there anything in the network > configuration settings that can be done so the login prompt comes up > at once.
Your DNS probably has speed issues. The TCP wrappers will reverse and then forward resolve each connection, you can turn this off though, look in the hosts.allow man page. Jason
