On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Tony Crockford wrote about, Slow FTP/Telnet connections:
> Hi
>
> Tearing my hair out!
>
> I've got a Linux box running apache for web site development testing
> purposes and I'm trying to ftp and telnet it from a win98 box on a LAN -
> just the two boxes.
>
> Ping times are fine
>
> Web browser works fine too.
>
> But...............
>
> FTP login from win98 to the Linux box takes 2-4 minutes before it all bursts
> into life with no errors, and works fine thereafter.
>
> Telnet is the same, but maybe a tad faster.
>
> I've tried all the manuals and FAQ's and I'm sure the configuration is okay.
>
> Anyone got any similar tales? anyone got any solutions?
You have a authentication problem, possable causes, no nameserver defined
in /etc/resolv.conf or it is unreachable, or on the other hand you have not
defined the local lan machines in your /etc/hosts file.
192.168.0.2 pc1 pc1
Should work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
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