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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: Slow to open Telnet Connection
From:       Jonathan Chen <jonc () chen ! org ! nz>
Date:       2001-11-30 20:57:07
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:52:01AM -0600, Todd Reed wrote:
> When I try to telnet into my BSD box from a PC with a hub between the two, 
> why is it taking anywhere from 30seconds to 1 minute for the login screen to 
> appear?  Once it appears and I log in, it's fast like it should be, but it 
> just takes forever to connect?  This is a new box with FreeBSD 4.3, Apache, 
> MySQL, PHP, Popd, and Phpnuke installed.  That's it.  One HDD, nothing 
> fancy.

The telnetd on the BSD is trying to do a reverse-DNS lookup on your PC
box. When the lookup times out after 1 minute, it then continues. To
fix.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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