From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 13:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22777 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22763 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27838; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:50:55 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA14016; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:50:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980131075055.47898@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:50:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Karl Pielorz Cc: michael dorin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why is telnet so slow.... References: <199801300818.IAA13219@chaski.com> <34D1E66D.79A58BFA@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34D1E66D.79A58BFA@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:40:45PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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