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To: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Why does it it take so long to establish a connection to some 
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Graeme Brown wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have noticed on several occasions that it may take on the order of minutes
> to establish
> a telnet or ftp connection between two FreeBSD (typically our FBSD
> boxes are using releases 2.2.6 -> 2.2.8.  Does this have something to do with
> TCP configuration options ? What do I need to do to speed this up ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graeme N Brown
> BT labs, Uk
> email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk
> 

When I have seen this, it is usually due to DNS lookups timing out,
either due to
an unresolveable source address, or a loss of connection to the master
DNS server.
Easy answer if you are using local boxes is to make sure /etc/hosts is
referenced first
(/etc/host.conf), and put the interfaces of the two boxes into
/etc/hosts.

If do not have DNS enabled, then I have no idea :-)
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