Re: Local Net - delays in telnet login

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Amir Tal <tal@whatsup.org.il> writes:

> reverse DNS people.
> the host machine does not know who is calling, and it takes time to verify.
> add the calling machine to /etc/hosts of the hosting machine, and your 
> problems will go away ;)

Both machines are included in /etc/hosts on each machine. 

> On Sunday 25 August 2002 19:07, Paul E Condon wrote:

>> Are you using ppp to connect to the internet? and are you using diald to
>> start ppp? If so, try an experiment: turn off diald by running as root:
>> /etc/init.d/diald stop
>> With diald stopped, is there still a delay? If not you are probably
>> experiencing the same problem that I am experiencing. I don't know the
>> solution, but if we keep in touch ...

I connect to the internet with dhcp, and the connection is always up.
The two machines in question are on my localnet, and the connection
should not go through the internet.

Regards,

Bob
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