> The changes to the gateway address being used by the Debian system should > have little impact on the delay you are seeing in your telnet sessions > starting. As I don't use telnet on my systems (I much prefer SSH) I don't > have any sure fire advice for you. However, you may want to look into > "in.telnetd" (believe that's the daemon for telnet servers) and see if > there isn't a command line switch that controls whether a DNS lookup is > performed or not. Then check how it's being started from your > "/etc/inetd.conf"
Probably the inetd is running with logging enabled. Which means that it will reverse lookup all IP addresses and try to log the name in /var/log/syslog. Check syslog and see if inetd is logging there. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
