Re: [cobalt-users] slow telnet response...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep.  Happened when I switched from outside vendor to myself for my 
Northpoint sDSL line.  It was to have happened on the 1st, so I expected 
any problems to occur yesterday; it didn't happen until overnight last 
night, and I had thought I'd already been through that.  I've already 
replied to a previous email.

I'll be setting up reverse DNS; it also broke ftp.  In the meantime the 
line in hosts fixes it for my system, but obviously not for others I log into.

Thanks!

Jeff

At 10:40 AM 2/2/00  Frank Smith wrote:
> It means your DNS is broken.  The server does a reverse lookup on the IP
> address connecting to it so it can log the hostname.  If it can't resolve
> it before it times out (about a minute),  it gives up, logs the IP, and
> continues on normally.
>    Fix it so the server can resolve the client IP and your delay will
> disappear.
>
> Frank

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