On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:26:46PM -0000, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Niall, I love your mails, they always crack me up :)
Glad to be able to brighten your day !
> This time it takes ages to connect [20 seconds or so] but it does so after
> said time. This I find mildly annoying.
This is a VFAQ - it's because the other box is trying to reverse map your IP
address and giving up in disgust. If you run a local DNS or put an entry for
your box in the remote box's hosts files (with an appropriate
/etc/nsswitch.conf) you'll solve that problem.
Niall
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