On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Manoj Doshi wrote:
> if we telnet or ftp the machine from some other machine it does get
> connected rightaway n gives message 'Connected to linmac' but it take
> ages before we get the 'Username' prompt. whereas if we do a ftp from
> same linux machine no problems atall.
Seems like a dns problem. Your linux server is set up to look for a dns
server that does not currently exist.
Soln: set up your linux machine as a local dns server. See DNS-Howto
Philip
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