Why is it that it took so long to get the telnet login prompt? When I do "telnet HostX" I got: Trying 10.1.64.69... Connected to HostX. Escape character is '^]'. ... but it stops there for some 5 minutes before I could get the following: Red Hat Linux release 5.0 (Hurricane) Kernel 2.0.32 on an i486 login: Please correct me if I'm wrong: At first I thought the telnet server was doing some name lookup. So, since it's within the LAN, I simply put the host name of client machines into the server's /etc/hosts. To certain circumstances it does solve the problem (or is it not?). However, there are times when it doesn't. So I thought it must have been partly due to the problem with the link and routing. If it is so, can anyone of you elaborate it? Perhaps I could tuneup the telnet app at the server to solve the problem. And how is that possible? TQ in advance. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
