From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 12:59:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-28.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBED737B417 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:59:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAUL0fZ05531; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:00:41 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:00:40 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Todd Reed Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow to open Telnet Connection Message-ID: <20011201100040.B4916@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ex279@hotmail.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:52:01AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:52:01AM -0600, Todd Reed wrote: > When I try to telnet into my BSD box from a PC with a hub between the two, > why is it taking anywhere from 30seconds to 1 minute for the login screen to > appear? Once it appears and I log in, it's fast like it should be, but it > just takes forever to connect? This is a new box with FreeBSD 4.3, Apache, > MySQL, PHP, Popd, and Phpnuke installed. That's it. One HDD, nothing > fancy. The telnetd on the BSD is trying to do a reverse-DNS lookup on your PC box. When the lookup times out after 1 minute, it then continues. To fix. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message