On Friday 27 July 2001 20:02 you've wrote:
> Hi,
> Since recently it takes minutes for the telnet prompt to appear on my home
> NetBSD gateway, which runs 1.5. The login and the telnet-session go
> normally after that.  It used to appear immediately. I tried with both
> SecureCRT and the standard Win2k client. CuteFTP and the standard FTP
> client show the same signs. CuteFTP says "Socket connected. Waiting for
> welcome message" and then times out. "ftp" says:
>
> C:\>ftp nodeXXXX.a2000.nl
> Connected to nodeXXXX.a2000.nl.
> Connection closed by remote host. <== this after a minute or so!
>
> Our power-supply has been pretty flaky last week, so it went down
> "uncleanly" (?) a couple of times. Could that be the cause? The only thing
> I can remember changing is bringing down Socks5, but that shouldn't make a
> difference. What could be going on here?
>
> Greets,
> Wouter

inetd tries to look up your host when you dial in - so what speeds things 
really up is having the hostname of the comp from where you try to dial in in 
the server's /etc/hosts ...