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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!cisco.com!vandys 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 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <vandys.754589758@cisco.com> References: <a09878.754545273@giant> NNTP-Posting-Host: glare.cisco.com 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