Re: [TCLUG:8920] Telnet login prompt is slow

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting mwtown@mmm.com (mwtown@mmm.com):
> This morning, I've just learned that my friend's server (which runs on his
> DSL line) started doing the same thing when his DSL line went down on
> Saturday morning.  He's running SuSE (one of the newer versions), so that
> rules out the distro package.

Your box is timing out on DNS requests and/or reverse name lookups. Try
setting up things in /etc/hosts or run a caching only DNS server.

> The only thing I can think of now is that it might be that I don't use a
> DNS (since the Linux box is on an internal net) and he can't access one
> while the DSL line is down.  Am I thinking correctly on this?  How do I
> check?  If it is, how should I go about fixing it?

Same thing for your friend. Things worked fine because he was on the 'net and
was able to resolve hostnames. Drop the DSL link and DNS goes with it.
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