On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, don fay wrote:
> no it wouldn't disable dns lookups - it would just not continue to try if it
> failed on first attempt; thus making you wait 30s or 60s or 2mins or
> whatever the applications timeout is. when you say 'problems telnetting in'
> i take it you mean it is really slow and not that you simply cannot login
> as in connection refused (?).
No, Immediately after entering the passwd and pressing enter I
get "connection closed by foreign host". If I enter the machine in /etc/hosts
all is OK both with ssh and telnet.
> i doubt your ISP has your 192.168. addresses
> in their dns.
You are correct. However the network in question is at work. All machines
on that network have real ip addresses. 204.something. Everything seems
to work normal except as described above.
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Alan Cox lkml 11 Jan 01
