>People,
>I've recently installed RH5. When a client telnets or ftps into the
>server it can take upto a couple of minutes for the server to reply >with
>a login prompt. The network is operating correctly. I am also
>experiencing the same problem with another RH5 server on another
>network.
>Any ideas ???
RH 5.0 does a reverse IP lookup by default. If will try to resolve the IP
adress, but if there is no DNS (or not for that IP), it will fail and
timeout. This take a while, so that's the delay.
Try adding the IP to the DNS server, or add then to /etc/hosts.
>Thanks in anticipation.
Igmar
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