From: "Eli Hadad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have 586 laptop with linux at work and when I need to download a lot of staff
> I download it at work to the laptop and take him home and upload from it to my
> linux desktop at home.
>
> For some reason when I ftp-ing from my desktop to the laptop or the opposite it
> takes
> about 30-60 sec to connect.
>
> The machines are responding to ping fine, the problem is with ftp,rlogin and
> telnet.
> I use RH6.0 on both the machines.
>
> Note that at work I am using ftp and rlogin to the laptop without any problems
> mentioned.
>
> any idea.
Check your nsswitch.conf file and generally the bind/yp or whatever you
use to resolve names. Also check for configuration of identd checks.
I don't know if it's available for RH, but there is a nice little
package for Debian called "netenv" which allows you to pick up your
current settings when the machine boots, just before running all the
initialization scripts.
--Amos
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