Have you got a name server properly set up?

When telnetd (and possibly ftpd) get kicked off they look do an address to
name look up to see the name of who called them up (you often see this is a
'last logged in from' line).

If it's failing to do the lookup it would hang until it times itself out.

Why this would appear in top still as 'inetd' I don't know.

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>From: Levi Sluder <eclipse@trellis.net>
>To: Mac 68k <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
>Subject: Inetd problems...:(
>Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2000, 6:26 pm
>

>Hi, I just reformatted my NetBSD box with 1.4.2. Now when some ftps,
>telnets, ect, it takes a really, really, long time for them to login in.
>It just waits, then in a few minutes I get the message on my console
>from inetd, then in a little they get the prompt. Once they get the
>login: prompt it all runs fast. It's just before that. I know this is
>vague, but it's really annoying. Oh, this might help. Every time someone
>logs in, while they are in the limbo waiting period, another 'inetd -l'
>is spawned, then goes away if they do make it in. I don't know if this
>is normal or not. Anyway, any help would be great!
>
>        -- Levi Sluder
>