From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 12:42:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8856137B42F for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 16647 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2001 19:51:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2001 19:51:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3B212A31.C2BD5E43@iowna.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:40:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Spencer Cc: pea@andrewpea.com, fbsd Subject: Re: Delay bringing up telnet window References: <20010608001232.45060.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Setting up a reverse DNS zone on the local DNS server will solve it too. You don't even have to put entries for the machines - the DNS server will report back that it can resolve the IP and telnet will continue without waiting any longer. Keith Spencer wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > Thanks I can see how that would work. > Only trouble is I telnet from all over the shop...hmmm > > --- Bruce Pea wrote: > > > Keith, > > > > We were having this same problem on our system (5 > > servers in a stack). What > > we did > > to solve the problem was to be sure every machine we > > wanted to telnet to > > was listed > > in the /etc/host file of the server we were > > telneting from. > > > > After we did that we had instant telneting, no > > delays at all. > > > > Hope that helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message