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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:33:00 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com>
Subject:   Re: Curious delay in telnet
Message-ID:  <003201c0a087$26452a30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <p05001902b6c0f012220b@[192.168.168.205]>

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> When I first telnet from my FB4.1 system to my FB4.1 system, it prints:
> 
>    Trying 192.168.168.42...
>    Connected to fb42.
>    Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> It then waits quite a long while (about a minute) before printing:
> 
>    FreeBSD/i386 (fb42.cfcl.com) (ttyp0)
> 
>    login:
> 
> OTOH, if I already have a telnet session open on fb42 (or have recently
> had a session open), a new session comes up with no delay.  I wonder if
> this is some sort of DNS or other time-out and how I might track it down.

This usually occurs when reverse-DNS isn't properly configured.

--
Matt Emmerton


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