Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:37:37 -0800 From: Marc Hunter <hunter@hunter.net> To: jay tigre <lostigresmuerden@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: slow telnet login over (lan and wan) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030218123728.0220cec0@pop.islandnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030218172423.9625.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 09:24 AM 02/18/03 -0800, jay tigre wrote: >im running FreeBSD 4.7 Release on amd athlon 1.6ghz >with 512mb of ram. This machine has a very light cpu >load. it mostly sits there idle and handles email for >a small office. for some reason however, telnet >logins are very slow over the sdsl 512/512 connection >as well as the 100mbps lan. When I try to telnet to >that box, i make an immediate connection but don't get >a login prompt for almost 30-40 seconds. Its not a >major problem. Just very annoying. Does anyone have a >clue about how to resolve this problem. any hints >would help. It is probably because for some reason it does a reverse lookup on your IP and if there is no answer it times out. A work-around is to add your IP to the hosts table. Someday I hope to be able to burrow into that code and find a way to turn that off... Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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