From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 10:56:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2503B14C28 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03495; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:58:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:58:03 -0500 (EST) From: hometeam To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , "Paul T. Root" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem In-Reply-To: <36FBD419.2CF3F27C@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG True I think we have fallen a little off track we are looking for problems within her box not the remote. Nobody said it was timing out they said it took 3 mins to connect. So that would then not be a problem with her routing rather one on the remote. It might allthough I doubt it. Try turning off dns on the freebsd box and connect to yourself. I don't care what your ip is. unless I have you blocked. So you try another connection. On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > hometeam wrote: > > > > makes no differance using the ip address there will be no lookup of the > > name to map. > > Sorry, but Ruslan is correct. What he is coming at is that if the > reverse DNS for the FreeBSD box is not correctly set, the remote > host receiving the telnet might lock waiting for the reverse-ip of > the caller until it time outs. > > I don't have the details of the configuration yet, but I suspect > this scenario is not all that unlikely. > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "What kind of psychologist laughs at her patients?" > "I don't laugh at all of them." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message