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Subject: Re: Degraded Telnet
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 26 Apr 2000 08:54:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kent Stewart's message of Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:23:00 -0700
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Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> writes:

> Ian Cartwright wrote:
> > 
> > I am having a problem with Telnet. For some reason, after being in a telnet
> > session (from my NT Worksation to the FreeBSD box) telnet starts to degrade
> > (i.e. Typing is slow, response is poor, etc.) . Eventually I have to kill
> > the connection, wait a few minutes and try again (if I try again right away,
> > the connection times out). Other network some other network demons get slow
> > as well, like ping.
> > 
> > Has anyone heard of this before?
> 
> There has always been something similar if you don't have a proper
> reverse DNS setup. FYI, I leave telnet running from Windows 2000 to
> both of my FreeBSD systems for days at a time with out any problems.

Interesting.  I haven't seen this, and I can't really see how DNS
could possibly affect the performance of a telnet session after it's
been established.  If it is, in fact, the case, can someone explain
how it would happen?

Be well.
        Lowell


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