Re: Slow Telnet

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc@thctribe.net>]

On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:27, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Hi group - I have seen this asked (and answered) years ago, but am
> unable to reproduce the solution.
> If I telnet to a new (Debian unstable) box, I get:
> 
>   Connected to junior.avondel.nl
>   Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
> I vaguely recall it had to do with /etc/hosts or /etc/resolve, but now
> clue to the exact solution.
> 

It could be a dns lookout timeout (1 minute and 15 seconds, IIRC), try
to populate the /etc/hosts file with the ip and host name of the two
box, or modify the entry in your DNS server...

Hope this helps.

Andrea