Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:50:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is telnet so slow.... Message-ID: <19980131075055.47898@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34D1E66D.79A58BFA@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:40:45PM %2B0000 References: <199801300818.IAA13219@chaski.com> <34D1E66D.79A58BFA@tdx.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:40:45PM +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: > michael dorin wrote: >> >> I have a network of 2 sun workstations, one linux box, two window's >> boxes, and one Freebsd box. >> >> When I try and telnet between the systems it takes forever, but >> the session always comes up. Whats going on? What can I do >> to make it faster? > > Sounds like the machines are using the DNS to reverse the ip address your > telnetting from... > > The pause is while all the DNS activity is going on... Some systems will kick > you out if you fail this check, others will just log it as a 'warning'. Agreed. More likely, though, this is going to be a DNS timeout, which takes about a minute. Greg
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