Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:32:11 -0700 From: "Cowan Bowman" <cowan@mirageport.com> To: "Timothy Toroni" <timothy@indy.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Connect & prompt times. Message-ID: <053c01bd3c2e$90381a80$235e86cc@hercules.mirageport.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Toroni <timothy@indy.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 10:13 PM Subject: Connect & prompt times. >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 Check to see if reverse DNS is setup correctly. >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. Setting up another user in /etc/group then a su to root is the secure way to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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