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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:14:42 -0800
From:      "Jesse Geddis" <sgeine@yahoo.com>
To:        <darwood@mac.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Authentication when telneting lag
Message-ID:  <NGBBKILMGLGEDIHMGJANKEIHCAAA.sgeine@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <334B242C-2B46-11D6-91A9-000502D58F42@mac.com>

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	I've had a lag waiting for a prompt due to misconfigured naming but not any lag
on the actual authentication. do you mean you type in your username and password
and you have to wait or you have to wait for the actual prompt? if you're
running named on your local box and specify yourself as the nameserver in
/etc/resolv.conf whether or not your ISP is mucking it up won't matter.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of darwood@mac.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:53 PM
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Authentication when telneting lag


Hi all,

Ok I've been stuck on this problem for some while now.  I have the usual
problem of when I telnet or do a pop3 connection, ssh, etc to an outside
box, I have a lag time of a minute or more after I have connected.  Now I
know this is probably due to the fact that I don't have a reverse lookup.
This is actually a problem with my isp.  I run a name server on my freeBSD
box but the reverse lookup for my ip isn't mapped to my name server.

The problem or more the confusion I'm having is that when I connect my OS
X box up to the cable modem instead of the freeBSD box I don't have as
long of timeouts.  I notice that most servers want to check port 113 for
ident and to see if this was the problem I set up ident, had the port
refuse by opening the port 113 with no service behind it and also had the
firewall return that the port is unreachable.  These tests didn't change
anything.  I checked how the OS X box responds to a port 113 connection
and it just refuses.

So my question is why are the lag times on my freeBSD box so long where
they aren't as long in OS X?  If this was strictly a server issue not
being able to do a reverse lookup it should have identical behavior.

I use freeBSD for a firewall/nat server so that I can share the one ip
with 3 other boxes.  All the boxes that connect through the freeBSD box
using nat have the same lag.  It's only if I bypass the firewall that the
lag is less.

Now for my configuration I was running 4.4 stable but upgraded to 4.5
stable to see if this would fix anything.  I also run the default simple
firewall rules.  The box itself is a Pentium 60 with two SMC 10/100
ethernet cards.

If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.

--
Derek


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