On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:43:53AM -0500, Timothy J. Z. Olow wrote:
> When trying to connect to the remote box via the telnet command to port 25 it
> connects within seconds but, the banner does not appear for a good 40
> seconds.
This is almost certainly due to DNS problems or ident lookups timing out. You
should look into the -R, -H, and -l (that's an ell) options to tcpserver. And
check the list archives; this question comes up at least a couple of times a
week.
> I have also tryed to use the -F option, but this does not seem to be making
> the problem go away.
The -F option to what? What is it supposed to do?
Chris
