From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 21:17:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20545 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20481 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA01735; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:15:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:15:34 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Timothy Toroni cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connect & prompt times. In-Reply-To: <34EA64EF.6959B7FF@indy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm running FreeBSD RESLEASE-2.2.5 on a 486dx33 with 8meg of memory. I > also have an 3c509(?)... the epX device. > > The computers in question are: > normandy.torpedogames.com 10.0.0.101 > iwojima.torpedogames.com 10.0.0.104 > > I am running the DNS server on normandy and it works great, my win95 > machine is able to to use it fine. > > The problem is that when I telnet or ftp to the computer(s) it connects > immediately but then sits for over a minute. Once I get the login > prompt I can login fine. When I run netstat it also takes over a > minute, what's up? > When this happens I have the /etc/resolv.conf as: > domain torpedogames.com > nameserver 10.0.0.101 > > If I rem out the nameserver line or put an invalid IP address in then it > connects and displays the login prompt immediately however the DNS no > longer works. What can I do to fix this? What's really causing this? > > Also, another question. What do I have to edit so I can login as root > via telnet? As a temporary fix I added another user to the wheel group > in /etc/group then su to root after logging on as the user but I assume > there has to be a better way. I've looked around in the > /etc/login.access but couldn't get anywhere. Did you setup reverse DNS for the machines trying to connect? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message