DNS.. hosts, reverse lookups.. these are the things that cause slow
telnets..
Dave.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, John Ronan wrote:
> Howdy,
>> I've a strange problem with a machine, trying to telnet to the localhost or any
> service which goes through inetd takes a really long time (if ever) to return a
> prompt (pop/imap/telnet), this happens 8/10 times or so...
>> Any ideas?
>> J
>>>>
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