On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > I am in a local net and I have a default gateway to visit internet. > And I want to provide telnet service to local net. > But there is something wrong with the gateway(win2k), > it returns the route information very slow. > > My route looks like > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > Sometimes it cost several seconds to complete the "route" program. > And it seems that in.telnetd will wait the route information. > So, the gw affects my telnet service. when telnet to me, login prompt > will appear after waiting sevel seconds. If I do not set the default > route, telnet will show login promp immediately. > > How to solve the problem, except fix the gateway?
Try: time route -n >/dev/null time route >/dev/null If the first is fater than the second then the issue is NOT with the routeing it is a DNS lookup issue. It just means the your DNS server isn't providing reverse mappings for your private IP's Yours Tony. /* * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the * same level of thinking we were at when we created them." * --Albert Einstein */