Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:06:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Lorin Lund <lorin_lund@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange login delays - ftp problems Message-ID: <394A7AA7.6CA94BEF@3-cities.com> References: <20000616161251.19722.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com>
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Lorin Lund wrote: > > I've just loaded RELEASE 4.0 on a PC that had been > running 3.3. I wiped it out and loaded from scratch. > > When I telnet in from some computers the login process > is quick and painless, but from others there is a > strange delay. > > In the delay case I get the banner and login prompt > without delay. I enter my userID, press enter, get the > password prompt without delay, enter my password and > then wait ... sometimes several minutes before it > gives me the motd and a shell prompt. > > I have no idea what to look for. > > Also I can't ftp in or out reliable. Usually when I > try to make an incoming ftp connection I get some > delay and then "Connected to debughost. > " and then nothing for a long time then > "Connection closed by remote host. > " > > When I try to ftp out I get no response for a long > time, then it finally procedes to give me a login > prompt. > > Also, when I do and ifconfig -a I see some devices I > don't understand: gif0, gif1, gif2 ... they seem to be > related to IPv6 stuff that I didn't think I asked for. > Are these normal, optional, standard with RELEASE 4? I kind of think that you might have some systems that aren't covered by your hosts table or hosts.allow. I have all of my systems covered in both. Reverse DNS failing could be causing the long logins. These are ipv6 stuff. At least for now, I have it commented out where ever it occurs. Kent > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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