[ILUG] Slow connection

[Vincent Cunniffe]

Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> >
> > If not, RH5.{0|1|2} defaults to doing a reverse lookup on connecting
> > machines,
> > and the prompt will only appear after the lookup fails. However, it's
> > odd that the ping resolve works both ways :-/
> 
> ping never does a reverse lookup.
> 
> Kenn

Yeah, but ping works *both* ways, which means that B can resolve A
happily enough when it's pinging, but can't resolve it when A is
trying to connect to B and B's trying to lookup the connecting 
machine. Most odd.

Vin