Hi,

I had the same problem. It seems that the telnetd tries to do a reverse 
DNS query  for the client connection. Does your client IP has a reverse 
entry in the DNS? I solved my problem in that way (but that was with 1.6)

Regards,
Rodrigo

Ian Spray wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:39:20AM +0100, John Allan wrote:
>  
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>>Yup, seems the same anywhere
>>
>>Tried ftp to ftp ftp.netbsd.org but it just sits there all day doing
>>nothing.
>>
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>Hi John,
>
>I've not tried the CD so you could be experiencing a problem with it, but
>most of the time I have issues with long telnet delays it turns out to be a
>DNS fault.  What does your /etc/resolv.conf file look like ?  Can you look
>up names with either nslookup or dig ?  If they work, then you might have
>got a problem.
>
>HTH,
>  
>