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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!ray.com!news.ray.com!news.res.ray.com!swlnews.msd.ray.com!not-for-mail From: wag@swl.msd.ray.com (Bill Gianopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow login on POP, FTP, and Telnet Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:23:11 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Company Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5dga0f$qjq@swlrd2.msd.ray.com> References: <32f950a8.336626051@news> <5dbljq$bh6$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <32F9F8DA.2CB9@mail.hqs.crc.com> <32FB8FB4.446B9B3D@jnet.vi> NNTP-Posting-Host: swlrd2.msd.ray.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35134 Dan Benjamin wrote: > with 8MB of ram. The logins on POP, FTP, and Telnet are all REALLY > slow (most programs time them out). Any idea why this could be? I > suspect the CPU, while my fellow "administrators" think it's the ram. > Any ideas? Thanks for any help. It might really be a problem with your DNS configuration. It is probably not correct and times out trying to do the reverse lookup on the IP address trying to determine the connecting machines host name. -- William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Company gianowa@eo.ray.com -------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.