On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Dave Price wrote:
> 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
>
You might want to put hat host & ip in /etc/hosts if you telnet o that
machine often.
> 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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