On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:46:49 -0400, Doug Fields wrote: > >>All connections to my machine are delayed. "telnet localhost" takes 20 secs to >>connect and another 20 secs to display the login. "telnet 127.0.0.1" connects >>immidiately, but also needs 20 secs to display a login. > >Sounds to me the reverse mapping is not set up. Which doesn't make sense >because it's in your hosts file.
I could imagine that this has something to do with the auth/ident daemon looping. The original poster should have a look at their syslog file, if they see something like "identd disabled due to looping." -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder: L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^