Great, thanks heaps. That was the real answer I was looking for...
thanks to all others too..
George Vieira
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-----Original Message-----
From: tom burkart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:12 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Slow initial telnet.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> I removed the entry and it starts up real damn quick.. weird that it MUST
> resolve these addresses. Must find a way to ignore them..
Your real fix is in /etc/nsswitch.conf
Here you set several lines to "files [NOTFOUND=return]" - especially the
hosts (DNS lookup) line...
tom.
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