[SunHELP] Performance issue.

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:55:06PM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> I usually find that telnet being really slow is DNS related. The machine
> you're telneting to might be trying to do a reverse lookup on the address
> you appear to be coming from. Once that's timed out it allows you to login.
> If you can, stick a temporary entry for the host you're coming from in the
> hosts file on the other box and see if that sorts it out. If it does check
> the DNS setup.
> Will.

Will's right - I have this issue occasionally here where I work.  Make
sure that the machine you're telnetting into can resolve the hostname
of the machine you're coming from - both forward and reverse.

There's no way to turn this "feature" off, either. 8-(

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX