[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My System: > potato with the security updates. > proftpd > telnetd > > My Problem: > telnet and ftp (local network) connections to my server from win clients > (CUTE FTP, MSIE, Putty ...) are very slow: > The Telnet running is not slow when connection is done, so the anoying thing > is just the connection. > > Linux telnet client connect to the server very fast. > But Win telnet client also connects to another server out of the network > very fast ?!
That is often a DNS problem. Does the Linux server have any way to translate the Windows client's IP address back to a name? Either /etc/hosts or DNS? Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html