From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 10:41:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147E814C23 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA05610; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:39:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36FBD419.2CF3F27C@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:38:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hometeam Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , "Paul T. Root" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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