Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the inetd super server ?
Pat On Thursday 05 April 2001 13:40, Jason P. Holland wrote: > This is normally associated with DNS problems. check and make sure you > have /etc/resolv.conf setup correctly. Also, if you need a static entry or > two, add them to /etc/hosts. > > Jason > > > I'm having difficulty telnetting into my system. It appears > > that I get a > > connection right away, but it takes a long time to receive > > the login prompt > > and often I don't receive a prompt at all. Any advice would > > be appreciated. > > > > Bill
