Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment
> The changes to the gateway address being used by the Debian system should
> have little impact on the delay you are seeing in your telnet sessions
> starting. As I don't use telnet on my systems (I much prefer SSH) I don't
> have any sure fire advice for you. However, you may want to look into
> "in.telnetd" (believe that's the daemon for telnet servers) and see if
> there isn't a command line switch that controls whether a DNS lookup is
> performed or not. Then check how it's being started from your
> "/etc/inetd.conf"
Probably the inetd is running with logging enabled. Which means that
it will reverse lookup all IP addresses and try to log the name in
/var/log/syslog. Check syslog and see if inetd is logging there.
Bob
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