From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 10 19:01:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05815 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [198.168.253.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05808 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA19430; Sat, 10 May 1997 22:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 22:01:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: Bernard Courtney cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet Problems With 2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <33752339.CE4@bythehand.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Bernard Courtney wrote: > Hi all, > > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my web server. It is a P-75 with 64MB > of memory. I previously had FreeBSD 2.1.5 installed on it. When I now > telnet the the machenes IP address over my local network it takes at > least 3 min. for the login prompt to come up. I never had this problem > with 2.1.5, I have no idea what might be causing this problem. > Thanks in advance for all of your help. Hi, Most likely that the system can't resolve the IP address that you are telnetting FROM into a hostname. Make sure your in-addr.arpa domains are correctly registered and operating. Andrew Webster andrew@pubnix.net Key fingerprint = CF E8 16 B8 A6 DB E3 C9 83 E7 96 24 25 58 15 6E PubNIX Montreal Connected to the world Branche au monde P.O. Box 147 Cote Saint Luc, Quebec H4V 2Y3 tel 514.990.5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514.990.9443