Re: [LI] ping is fast, login prompt is slow!

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rohit Singh forced the electrons to say:
> 
> When I telnet to it from other nodes on the subnet, the connection gets 
> established very fast (it's slower through Windows Telnet, though!), but I 
> get the /etc/issue message and Login prompt after ages!
> 

This is because of the reverse DNS lookup that the telnet server does. The
solution is to add an entry for the machine in the /etc/hosts file of the
server (or on your DNS server).

Binand
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