On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Mark Ibell wrote: > We have a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (GENERIC kernel) box at work that has > exhibitted some strange telnetd behaviour. For example, when you try to > telnet in you get a login prompt straight away but after entering a > password have to wait for exactly 150 seconds (2m30s) until the shell > prompt is reached. > > Even more curiously, once logged in if you try to telnet (or ftp for > that matter) out, a 75 second delay is experienced. This has happened a > couple of times now and a reboot fixes the problem. DNS has been checked > carefully (nslookup queries work fine), so I'm pretty sure it's not > that. Did you verify that reverse lookups were working properly? That's the point where it reverse-resolves the IP address that connected to get a hostname. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
