Re: rlogin delays

[p <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:44:06PM +0000, Iain Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:39:44PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > hello,
> > I have installed the latest potato/2.2.19 on one of my network PCs.
> > When I rlogin into it from another host it takes more than a minute
> > before I get prompted for a password. There is nothing else of
> > consequence running on the debian system. No messages in the
> > system log, and once logged in everything is fine.
> > Clues ?
> > Cliff
> 
> DNS lookups? (Or maybe even ident... Admittedly I'm not that familiar with 
> rlogin) I have found with many services delays like this are caused by your
> servers inability to resolve your hostname etc...
> 
> Try adding your hostname and IP address to /etc/hosts if you have no DNS 
> server available...
> 
> hth,
> Iain
> 
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iain,

this, too, was my problem, which has been resolved, thx
to your info.

thx, again.

now,...back to my lurking.

bentley taylor.

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