>>>>> "Jukka" == Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:

Jukka> Am I the only one who has this problem in a local network?
>>  To me it sounds like your reverse DNS lookups fails.  If your
>> client's IP is A.B.C.D, try this:
>> 
>> nslookup set type=PTR D.C.B.A.in-addr.arpa
>> 
>> If that does take time, it's rev DNS that's the culprit.

Jukka> Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this.  The reply comes
Jukka> immediately.. no hang of any kind.

Jukka> BTW, the rlogin hang time is either 4..5 seconds or 9..11
Jukka> seconds, depending on my luck.  I didn't see any delays of
Jukka> 5...9 seconds when starting several rlogins.  Maybe the delay
Jukka> is one or two timeouts of some kind?

Just to be sure... you did the nslookup on the server machine?
I hope I don't insult you, by asking...  I still think rev DNS
is your problem as telnet works fast.  rlogind authenticates via
rev DNS lookup among other things, telnet doesn't.

Niklas

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