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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:00:14 -0500
From:      "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Curious delay in telnet
Message-ID:  <3A9D127E.3050104@titania.net>
References:  <01C0A18C.DF404B40.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>

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Populate your local DNS with xxx.168.192.in-addr.arpa and
xx.168.192.in-addr.arpa PTR records.

Thomas Uhrfelt wrote:

> Simple solution?
> 
> I have 2 192.168.x.y networks connected via pipsecd. All users are using 
> DHCP. How do I go about implementing a simple solution for this? (ie. when 
> telnetting from the 192.168.xxx.y network to the 192.168.xx.y network) I 
> hate these timeouts... telnetd should have an option to turn this off..
> 
> Thomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joseph T. Klein [SMTP:jtk@titania.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:05 PM
> Cc:	freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: Curious delay in telnet
> 
> If you do not have proper reverse DNS resolution the daemon
> pauses while waiting for the DNS to time out. This affects any
> service that attempts to resolve the IP address using DNS.
> 
> This is an incredibly common problem with a very simple
> solution.
> 
> Tyler McGeorge wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> --
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> Senior Network Engineer                         jtk@titania.net
> Adelphia Business Solutions        joseph.klein@adelphiacom.com
> 
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Joseph T. Klein                                 +1 414 915 7489
Senior Network Engineer                         jtk@titania.net
Adelphia Business Solutions        joseph.klein@adelphiacom.com

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