Ok, thanks (and Martin). I added "192.168.0.3   kees" to /etc/hosts.
"kees.mydomain.com" doesn't exist, so this prevents it from being resolved
(well, attempted to be) on the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf. Both telnet
and FTP work perfectly again and I hope this is the right solution.

I think that my ISP changed something on their DNS servers so that this
problem suddenly arose.

Thanks,
Wouter

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Nelson" <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
To: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: Telnet login takes minutes, FTP takes infinity?


> > > difference. What could be going on here?
>
> With nearly 99.999% certainty you've got a misconfiguration of DNS on
> the machine you're trying to log into.  Look at it's /etc/resolv.conf,
> /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf ("hosts:" line) files.  Each of them
> has a man page.  Make them _simple_ and _syntactically correct for
> NetBSD_.
>
> henry nelson
>