Re: ftpd & telnetd

[tps@major.pita.org (Tim 'pass the Prozac' Sailer)]

At some point, brand@nando.net had written:
> 
> Well,
> 
> I finally got my ethernet card working.  In the grand tradition
> of people in a big hurry I... punted.  I grabbed a 3c509 card
> that was laying around, shoved it into my computer, rebuilt the
> kernel, and voila!
> 
> So now I can ping the computer from the net, and I've changed
> the default state to 3 (inittab), but... sigh...
> 
> The ftpd and telnetd seem to sort of just hang.  I telnet in
> from another machine, it connects, but no login prompt.
> 
> Any ideas?

Sounds like DNS isn't setup/working... it hangs for 60-240 secs while
it tries to do the reverse lookup for the name 

Tim