NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/25238

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From: [e-mail] (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Networking with net-src-0.2
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Date: 23 Jan 93 18:42:29 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Hendrik G. Seliger) writes:
|> [e-mail] (Shayne Noel Smith 2245702) writes:
|> :
|> :   When telneting (or anything) to the Linux box from a Sun Sparc 2
|> :   it takes for ever for the connection to be established.  It does
|> :   eventually get there but sometimes after 45 Seconds..
|> :
|>
|> Is this in the FAQ??
|>
|> It's a problem of the named. It disappears if your name server is
|> set up correctly (like using that nice Sparc you're connecting to
|> as a nameserver; works for me).

it's not really a problem as such, just configuration, what is happening
here is that your telnet is attempting to resolve the ip address from
a non existant nameserver (cos named isn't running/badly configed) and
then, after timing out it checks through the /etc/hosts file

It's in the FAQ (somewhere!), which is temperarily in the hands of
Matt Welsh while I sit out a week and do mid sessionals.

Phil
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