that tends to happen a lot with machines with a broken DNS configuration, install a DNS and/or try commenting out the lines in /etc/hosts.deny. It's best to install a DNS and not rely on another incase that other is not reachable it will take a while to 'time out'. most services try to reverse lookup the addresses that connect to see if they are spoofing(not that most daemons do anything about it if they are)
nate On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Bernd wrote: bernd >hi bernd > bernd >i'm new on this list and would need your help please. bernd > bernd >im running slink here as a router and it works great. but if i bernd >want to telnet or ftp to this pc, it needs some minutes to bernd >receive the login. my ftp-client gets a timeout all the time. how bernd >can i fix this problem? please help me!! bernd > bernd >mfg bernd bernd > bernd > bernd >-- bernd >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null bernd > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:03pm up 132 days, 2:57, 3 users, load average: 1.70, 1.64, 1.53
