Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:29:31 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious delay in telnet Message-ID: <20010227222931.A55112@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <15003.57375.775222.91091@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:13:03AM -0700 References: <p05001902b6c0f012220b@[192.168.168.205]> <15003.57375.775222.91091@nomad.yogotech.com>
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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
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