Re: Local Net - delays in telnet login

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:34:40PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Paul E Condon said:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:26:26PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Seems like the setups are rather different, but the reasoning is flawed. 
> > Also in my case the connection 'should not go through the internet', but...
> > Like I said, I don't know how to fix it, but I do know that everything I 
> > have been told to do, I have done, and it is still slow when I have the 
> > possibility of internet access. When I have the possibility of internet
> > access, the logon procedure seems to block until something has been checked
> > on the internet. 
> > 
> > I've made enough dumb mistakes in my time to believe that I am doing something
> > stupid, but now I see someone else having a similar problem. I really want to
> > find out how Bob fixes his version of the problem. 
> > 
> > Also, candidate explanations should work for both setups.
> 
> Just as a thought - /etc/host.conf should have 'order hosts,bind' to
> tell it to use /etc/hosts before doing DNS lookups - does it?
> HTH,
> Steve
> 
Thanks for the conribution, but turkeys like me -never- touch /etc/hosts.conf .
I have never seen a HOWTO ro other advice that mentions /etc/hosts.conf except to
aay that it should contain the stuff that is put there by some part of the standard 
install. Really, is there -any- case where a newbie would be advised to change it? 
If anyone could site, it would be an addition to my education.

But anyway, thanks for the thought.

Paul.


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Paul E Condon           
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