From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 26 22:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200FE37B419 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1R6Uii14093; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:30:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003201c0a087$26452a30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , "Rich Morin" References: Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:33:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I first telnet from my FB4.1 system to my FB4.1 system, it prints: > > Trying 192.168.168.42... > Connected to fb42. > Escape character is '^]'. > > It then waits quite a long while (about a minute) before printing: > > FreeBSD/i386 (fb42.cfcl.com) (ttyp0) > > login: > > OTOH, if I already have a telnet session open on fb42 (or have recently > had a session open), a new session comes up with no delay. I wonder if > this is some sort of DNS or other time-out and how I might track it down. This usually occurs when reverse-DNS isn't properly configured. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message