It could be reverse dns lookups
or the auth/ident connection.
Does the server and the computer you are using have a
reverse dns lookup.
And do a netstat | less
on the server when you are telneting see if it is trying
to make an auth/ident connection
Charles Verge
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Inst. Superior Arte wrote:
>
> Hi overhere!
>
> This is my first posting to this list
> so 'Hello to everyone here!' Now I can start..
>
>
> I recently installed Linux redhat 5.2
> on a pentium 200MMX 64MB Ram that servers a rather
> small network at school. It is not intended to
> traffic multimedia or anything "bandwith hungry"
> stuff so it's connected using normal coax cables.
>
> The problem is that the linux box serves
> incredibly well all the SMB shares, the Http Apache
> is amazingly fast responding, BUT, Whenever I
> try to telnet into it from another computer it
> times out or I have to wait for more than one minute...
> The same happens when I configured the SMTP and PO3
> accounts on the win95 clients. The client machines
> are using outlook express for mail.
>
> What I don't get is how come it takes so long
> connecting when I do the same to my ISP over phone
> lines and I don't have to wait for more than 2 secs
> for connection to be established.
>
> Sorry if I was extremely long in my posting
> but I wanted you to have a clear picture of my situation.
>
> Many thanx in advance to you all!
>
> And sorry again if this sounds like a newbie question...
> * after all I am newbie! :-)
>
> Ivan N
> Instituto Superior de Arte
>
