On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:23:52PM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > I'm trying to make a little network at home: PII400-486DX2/66 (as server). > > The problem is from the PII to the 486: if I try to make a telnet or a ftp > from > the PII, it takes 1min15 to the process to appear on a 'top' listing on the > 486, > and the whole time between typing 'telnet (or ftp) 192.168.1.1' and having the > loggin on the screen from the 486 is 2min30 (stuck @ "Character Escape '^]', > no > ctrl-c is possible). The tcpd tries a reverse lookup of the IP address and needs a timeout to fail. Add the IP address of both computers to the /etc/hosts file on the 486. (and on the other one too just to make sure) or setup a local nameserver (which is probably overkill).
Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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