On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 +0000 (UTC) > James wrote: > > 1. If this is not what's happening, what is to cause telnet to react so > > slowly? > > probably dns - most servers do a reverse dns lookup when a client > connects, and if the lookup does not work the timeout can be quite > noticeably long. >
Based on my experience, I concur with Nick's analysis that it is a DNS lookup timeout. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
