From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 30 8:48:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6F637BFE6; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5UFmFH74628; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mark Ibell Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet/tcp problems in 4.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <395C9767.3CB72C03@paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Mark Ibell wrote: > We have a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (GENERIC kernel) box at work that has > exhibitted some strange telnetd behaviour. For example, when you try to > telnet in you get a login prompt straight away but after entering a > password have to wait for exactly 150 seconds (2m30s) until the shell > prompt is reached. > > Even more curiously, once logged in if you try to telnet (or ftp for > that matter) out, a 75 second delay is experienced. This has happened a > couple of times now and a reboot fixes the problem. DNS has been checked > carefully (nslookup queries work fine), so I'm pretty sure it's not > that. Did you verify that reverse lookups were working properly? That's the point where it reverse-resolves the IP address that connected to get a hostname. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message