Re: [cobalt-users] FTP/Telnet login delay

[Brian Coughter <brianc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa...  Greased Lightning, baby!

Mucho Thanks, Danny!
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> From: "Danny Daniels" <dcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:11:26 -0700
> To: <brianc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] FTP/Telnet login delay
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> I've set it up on the DMZ of my LAN, alongside another 4 Cobalts, but
>>> whenever I try to connect to it (whether by telnet or FTP) I get a
>>> horrendous delay - several minutes - before managing to log in.  Has
> anyone
>>> got any idea what causes this, and what I can do to stop it?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dave Rowlands
> 
> I have seen this before. Its basically a host resolution problem. Add an
> entry to the file /etc/hosts for the host you are connecting from.
> 
> 192.168.1.1    myhost.mydomain.com    myhost
> 
> That should clear up the problem.
> 
> -Danny
> dcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>