Soumava Das rearranged electrons thusly:
> The problem is that it takes about a minute or more for the login
> prompt to appear. Sometimes, we get a time out error. It cannot be due to
> overloading of the network since the hub supports only 10 machines in all.
Reverse lookup / identd lookup etc.
> If anyone can suggest a remedy, it will be very helpful.
Configure DNS and rDNS on your lan (use the pcqupdt script - that's quite ok)
or at least set a hosts.allow file.
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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