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Re: [cobalt-users] Slow telnet and reverse DNS?!?

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:32:29PM +0100, cobalt-users wrote:
> I never knew that the Cobalt (and other Linux (and other UNIX?) boxes) did
> that... probably because I never encountered the problem before. Exactly
> the same problem happened with a generic Redhat 6.1 box I installed
> yesterday.  

Despite AC's post to linux-net earlier on the same
subject...technically, it's not linux (kernel) that
initiates this nor even the telnet daemon itself (usually)
but rather the tcp_wrappers which is used to call 
telnetd in inetd.conf.

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