Bug#3190: rlogin takes far too long when remote says Connection Refused

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Package: netstd
Version: 2.03-1

-chiark:~> time rlogin myrddin -l ijackson
myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Connection refused
Command had non-zero exit status 1
0.03user 0.01system 0:31.06elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (80major+27minor)pagefaults 0swaps
You have new mail in /usr/spool/mail/ian
-chiark:junk> time telnet myrddin login
Trying 131.111.131.23...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Command had non-zero exit status 1
0.05user 0.01system 0:00.11elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (105major+37minor)pagefaults 0swaps
-chiark:~>

Using strace I can see that it appears to be retrying the call !

Ian.