Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra Rodrigo.Fdz-Vizarra-at-infonegocio.com 
|netbsd| wrote:

> 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)


Yes -- I would concur. I was suspicious about this hardware until I 
found out ( I think by viewing the syslog ) that it was dns lookups on 
the incoming connection which time-out and cause delay.

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>
> Regards,
> Rodrigo
>
> Ian Spray wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:39:20AM +0100, John Allan wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Yup, seems the same anywhere
>>>
>>> Tried ftp to ftp ftp.netbsd.org but it just sits there all day doing
>>> nothing.
>>>
I experienced this as well the other day, from my OS X machine. Haven't 
tried today. Appears unrelated to your issue. Netbsd.gw.com also 
appeared down - perhaps because of the north east grid failure?

-Chas

>>>   
>>
>> 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,
>>  
>>
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