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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: telnetd on FreeBSD 2.1.0 Date: 24 Mar 1996 01:51:35 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4j29r7$1p7@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> References: <31545287.2A87@mail.sstar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gosset.maths.tcd.ie Jim King <jim.king@mail.sstar.com> writes: >telnet client connects right away, I see (using top) telnetd get started, but >nothing appears in the telnet client display for about 75 seconds. THEN, I get >the FreeBSD login prompt. Why the huge delay? Does the machine have a name server it can get to ? It may be tring to resolve the PC's name ? David.