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From: vandys@cisco.com (Andrew Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Long Delays In NetBSD 0.9 Telnet Host Startup
Date: 29 Nov 93 16:15:58 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems
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Message-ID: <vandys.754589758@cisco.com>
References: <a09878.754545273@giant>
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In <a09878.754545273@giant> a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

>... When I telnet into my NetBSD 0.9 host, I get a
>large (on the order of 30 sec. to a minute or more) delay before I get
>a login prompt.

You most likely have misconfigured your named stuff.  Take a look at
/etc/resolv.conf.  Make sure he points to a usable named machine, and
this delay should go away.  I believe you can also delete this file,
and only /etc/hosts will be used to resolve IP->name lookups.

						Andy