[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Does anyone know how to solve this: when I try to connect to my linux box
> from my win NT via ftp or telnet (differnt client software) it takes about
> 2.5 min until I get the login prompt. using http to connect to the apache
> web server works fine.
>
> I do have this problem only with Redhat 5.2. Running suse 6.0 on a different
> machine there's no such problem.
>
> Another question is my telnet client software: which terminal emulation &
> keyboard mapping should be used so that linuxconf and anything else works.
>
> Thanks much,
> Reinhard Schwarzinger
This sounds a lot like a reverse lookup is failing. How is the Linux
box doing DNS queries (or is it WINS)?
