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  From: Adam Crawford <ca@granite.net.au>
  To  : Timothy Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
        <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:48:00 +1030

Re: RH6.2 Telnet

I get the same problem on my redhat box's, it seems it takes
_forever_ when I am not ocnnected to the net
as soon as i am on the net, it connects stright out.

Go figure! :)

Regards,
Adam Crawford

: Ryan Verner wrote:
: > I've noticed on quite a few RH6.2 installations (including my own) that
: > sometimes when the box is telnetted into, there is somewhat of a delay
until
: > the telnet server spits back the login screen.

<snip>

: The most common cause is the redhat box is trying towork out who is
: connecting vis a hosts file entry or DNS.  You could try placing all
: relevant hosts into the /etc/hosts file and see if that makes a
: difference.  It's also a good idea to do this on any client machines as
: well.


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