What I meant by connections is that there will be no communication between
this server and any other servers, eg.. no gateway, no dns server, nothing..
it's a stand alone server with an IPchains rule to not accept any
connections except the workstations allowed.
I opened this up for testing and it's not IPCHAINS (obviously coz I
eventually connect OK after 30 seconds or so).
I do telnet with the IP address, it's the linux box that's trying to resolve
my IP address connection before giving me my login screen.
As I mentioned before, I removed the /etc/resolv.conf file and it's
lightening fast.
It's quite possible that it's syslogd trying to resolve as it does say it in
the man pages and it tries 10 times before spitting the dummy.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:59 AM
To: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira generated:
>There is no /etc/resolv.conf as it's an isolated database server and has no
>connections to any other server..
How can you telnet to it if it has no connections?
>Is there a way to get the TCP wrapper or whatever it is that's trying to
>resolve these machines to ignore resolving and just allow the connection
>quickly..?
telnet with the IP address instead of the machine name and it won't have
to resolve the name. Otherwise make sure your nameservers are listed
correctly in /etc/resolv.conf and they are working and accepting
connections from this database server.
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