[newbie] telnet,ftp up & working & SLOW

[michael]

I have a Linux box that has both telnet and wu-ftp servers running.
THe problem I am having is when I telnet or ftp into them I get the
connecting message. About 1-2 min later I get asked for a user name and 
password. Any idea's as to why this is so slow. I have tried it with
both the standard ftpd that ships with Mandrake 7.2 and wu-ftp. I have 
also used inetd and xinetd but that doesn't make a difference... is there
a config file somewhere I am overlooking?

thanks in advance.

Michael.