From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 2:53: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E1F37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAGAqwA36848; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:52:58 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:52:58 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Jo Zoch Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mwatson@netspace.net.au Subject: Re: Slow telnet and ftp connections Message-ID: <20001116215258.A36386@albury.net.au> References: <000a01c04f05$0452a610$0200a8c0@luxa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000a01c04f05$0452a610$0200a8c0@luxa>; from zoc000@yahoo.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:07:09AM +1100 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Jo Zoch (zoc000@yahoo.com): > I've just installed a BSD machine into my network, the machine > doesn't have a 'real' ip address, just a 192.168.0.x type address with > 255.255.255.0 as the netmask. > > I can ping the machine fine, and finger users without a problem. > > But when I go to either ftp or telnet to the machine it takes AGES for > the login prompt to come up, sometimes it even times out. > > when I sit on the machine and telnet/ftp to itself it works fine. > > I'm going from a 2000box to the bsd machine. Almost certainly a resolver issue. Put the IP of the 2000 box in /etc/hosts on the BSD machine. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message