Any idea how to keep it from doing this? Most of our machines (win95) are
configured with IP only and don't have fqdn's associated with them through
DNS. Is there a way that you know of to avoid the name lookups?
>===== Original Message From Dave Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Yes,
>
>I understand that this has to do with the Target machine failing to
>reverse resolve the ip address that you are telnetting from ... it
>eventually times out and lets you in anyway - look at /var/log/messages on
>the target - you will see that the log usually shows names (fqdn) for
>telnet sessions.
>
>davep
>
>On Mon, 6 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone ever experienced a problem where you telnet to a machine
>> running RHLinux, and there is an unusual amount of time (>1minute)
>> that goes by before you get a login: prompt??
>>
>> -------
>> $ telnet machine.running.redhat
>> Trying machine.running.redhat...
>> Connected to machine.running.redhat.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>
>> (~1-2 minutes elapse)
>>
>> Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore)
>> Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586
>> login:
>> -------
>>
>>
>> Eventually the thing works OK.
>> I've seen it before, but I can't remember what/how to fix it. My
>> recall is that it "fixed itself" over time (???)
>>
>>
>> H E L P !!!
>>
>>
>> Joe
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