Re: Slow Telnet
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
| (snip)
| > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
| (snip)
|
| Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too?
|
| Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the
| person connecting but those packets being silently dropped?
I bet this is why ssh'ing to my debian boxen has a long delay!
What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the
firewall?
-D
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