The problem is this site is bit and there is also going to be a remote site
logging in too.. I don't want to sit there entering host names for simple
workstation activity. Fine if it's a known server but not worried about
workstations.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:58 AM
To: George Vieira
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.
I've found that this whole problem is a local name lookup problem.
The file /etc/hosts stores things that can be quickly looked up.
I've found by adding lines in here that say what the current hostname is of
the machine and the correct ip address(s) - all of them, then it makes it
alot faster.
The DNS client will probably look at /etc/hosts first then try the server
and setting in /etc/resolv.conf - unless you have changed the order -
forgotten where.
dave
>
> I removed the entry and it starts up real damn quick.. weird that it MUST
> resolve these addresses. Must find a way to ignore them..
>
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