On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 14:42 +0000, James wrote: > Nope, It's an embedded device on a flat hub with a Gentoo and Debian > workstation, nothing else. Telnet to an IP address on the same > class C (/24) network does not use DNS. The embedded device has no > DNS or Authentication set up, as it's new right out of the box. > This behavior happens with all sorts of new embedded devices, > even a new cisco 1601 router. There is definate something different > about telnet on a debian woody portable with a 2.4 kernel, > versus a gentoo system with a 2.6.11 kernel.
You are making this way more complicated than it actually is. I can almost guarantee it is a name lookup issue in that the embedded device that you are telneting to cannot resolve the IP address of the gentoo box into a host name. The way to prove or disprove this, switch the IP addresses of the debian and gentoo boxes. If it is a name lookup issue, the debian box will be the one with the delay and the gentoo one will be the fast one. If the above test fails, then we need to look deeper. As far as finding out about the telnet installed on gentoo, which telnet did you emerge? It should be in your world file or in /var/log/emerge.log Once you know which version is installed, you can run ebuild /usr/portage/<category>/<package>.ebuild unpack which will unpack the sources into /var/tmp/portage, if you desire to look at the source code. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
