Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:40:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Keith Spencer <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au> Cc: pea@andrewpea.com, fbsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Delay bringing up telnet window Message-ID: <3B212A31.C2BD5E43@iowna.com> References: <20010608001232.45060.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <pea@andrewpea.com> 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B212A31.C2BD5E43>