From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 14:29:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6483037B71A for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from lanczos.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 27 Feb 2001 22:29:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:29:31 +0000 From: David Malone To: Nate Williams Cc: Rich Morin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet Message-ID: <20010227222931.A55112@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> References: <15003.57375.775222.91091@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15003.57375.775222.91091@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:13:03AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:13:03AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. I don't think that will help 'cos the delay looks like it is with the telnetd at the far end trying to look up the name, not the local telnet. Unfortunately telnetd doesn't seem to have an option corrisponding to -N. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message