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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:48:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet/tcp problems in 4.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300847450.21808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <395C9767.3CB72C03@paradise.net.nz>

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On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Mark Ibell wrote:

> We have a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (GENERIC kernel) box at work that has
> exhibitted some strange telnetd behaviour. For example, when you try to
> telnet in you get a login prompt straight away but after entering a
> password have to wait for exactly 150 seconds (2m30s) until the shell
> prompt is reached.
> 
> Even more curiously, once logged in if you try to telnet (or ftp for
> that matter) out, a 75 second delay is experienced. This has happened a
> couple of times now and a reboot fixes the problem. DNS has been checked
> carefully (nslookup queries work fine), so I'm pretty sure it's not
> that.

Did you verify that reverse lookups were working properly? That's the
point where it reverse-resolves the IP address that connected to get a
hostname.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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