Telnet and FTP trouble

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

BGa writes:
 > 	I'm running RH 6.0. Both Telnet and FTP logins from any remote machine 
 > takes about five minutes to appear. Once I log into the system they work as 
 > expected. Any idea why there is an initial delay? I have other unix 
 > machines on the same network, and I'm able to r-login to any of them 
 > immdly, so there is no problem with the network...

	I guess the problem is a reverse name lookup that is having
problems - are you telnetting from a windows machine?  I think adding
the name and ip of the telnet client host into the /etc/hosts file of
the server will fix it.  

	Does this mean that there is a problem with your name server
too?

prabhu

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