Is there a way to turn off the reverse IP lookup?
Bill
Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> >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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