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To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
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Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet
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> 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:

Try:

'telnet -N 192.168.168.42'

     -N      Prevents IP address to name lookup when destination host is given
             as an IP address.

If it comes up very quickly, it's a DNS/lookup issue.


Nate

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