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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:15:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        Timothy Toroni <timothy@indy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Connect & prompt times.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980217211317.1708A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <34EA64EF.6959B7FF@indy.net>

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> 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? 




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