Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:28:48 +0800 From: "Johan Yusoff bin Abu Bakar" <t0j0@yahoo.com> To: <treznor@sunflower.com>, "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, "Nate Williams" <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet Message-ID: <00df01c0a171$845d7e70$9c62640a@spritzer> References: <20010227225127.79002.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com>
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how about put ip in /etc/hosts .. ?? not sure whether it'll work... but IT IS a simpler solution than contacting you isp t0j0 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler McGeorge" <millioncheese@yahoo.com> To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>; "Nate Williams" <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 6:51 AM Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet > This problem, and a similar acting problem with FTPd, > used to plague me. I found that after I setup my BIND > name daemon, this issue was resolved. If you don't > really have a need for a BIND name daemon, I would > suggest setting it up with just your 127.0.0 network > and your ISP network and set the pointers. You could > also contact your ISP and offer to be a backup name > server, this would solve your problem, it shouldn't > cause them any problems, and you would also have > faster lookups for any data on your ISP's nameserver. > This is just a suggestion. I set up my DNS with a free > domain name from yi.org, where you can get > <something>.yi.org for free. There are many services > like this and it doesn't hurt. When I remote admin, I > don't have to type in the cumbersome IP address, I > just type in the domain. This is another idea. > > My FTPd problem also disappeared at the same time > after I set up my BIND name daemon. > --- David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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