Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:50:05 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: slow telnet login over (lan and wan) Message-ID: <20030218175005.GG288@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030218172423.9625.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030218172423.9625.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com>
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--8S1fMsFYqgBC+BN/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:24:23AM -0800, jay tigre wrote: > hello=20 >=20 > im running FreeBSD 4.7 Release on amd athlon 1.6ghz > with 512mb of ram. This machine has a very light cpu > load. it mostly sits there idle and handles email for > a small office. for some reason however, telnet > logins are very slow over the sdsl 512/512 connection > as well as the 100mbps lan. When I try to telnet to > that box, i make an immediate connection but don't get > a login prompt for almost 30-40 seconds. Its not a > major problem. Just very annoying. Does anyone have a > clue about how to resolve this problem. any hints > would help.=20 Likely, this relates to the telnetd trying to reverse map the connecting IP address. Check that it will reverse map, and if no other way if available maybe put an entry for the host in /etc/hosts. This is a common problem with sshd, so I'm just guessing that telnetd might behave the save? In any case, if nothing else is in the way, you might consider using ssh instead of telnet. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --8S1fMsFYqgBC+BN/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+UnJNWZYS9EJQoEwRAiGxAKC9Tvxf6iI7ysbMlPGSb38MvV0PHgCcDnks ZueA/T3+pbn+kocnZoGv5p0= =CgO5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8S1fMsFYqgBC+BN/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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