Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:38:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: hometeam <hometeam@techpower.net> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem Message-ID: <36FBD419.2CF3F27C@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903261323300.3370-100000@techpower.net>
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hometeam wrote: > > makes no differance using the ip address there will be no lookup of the > name to map. Sorry, but Ruslan is correct. What he is coming at is that if the reverse DNS for the FreeBSD box is not correctly set, the remote host receiving the telnet might lock waiting for the reverse-ip of the caller until it time outs. I don't have the details of the configuration yet, but I suspect this scenario is not all that unlikely. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What kind of psychologist laughs at her patients?" "I don't laugh at all of them." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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