Try editing /etc/nsswitch.conf and swapping 'files' and 'dns' on
	the hosts: line - you're probably suffering dns timeouts.

		David/absolute

       What _is_, what _should be_, and what _could be_ are all distinct.

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Douglas S. Meade wrote:

> The first time I installed 1.4 on one of my Decstation 240's, 
> I noticed that the system was taking a long time to respond to 
> telnetting in,  sometimes as long as 5 minutes!  Since I didn't
> use that machine a lot, I didn't think about it too much more,
> but figured I hand't configured something correctly.  Tonight,
> I installed 1.4 on two more machines, and I notice the same 
> problems with both of them.  On both machines, I was running 
> 1.3.3 before, and telnetting in was snappy and sure.  I upgraded
> them by dd'ing a diskimage to a clean disk, and booting that disk
> and running sysinst.  Then edited the standard files: rc.conf, 
> ifconfig.le0, hosts, resolv.conf, fstab, and set up a few users.
> I also notice on all of these installations that running the "w"
> command stops with listing the user logged in at the serial console,
> and then hangs.  Has anybody seen this, is it a new bug, or have I 
> likely forgotten something in my installation procedures?
> 
> Doug
>