no it wouldnt disable dns lookups - it would just not continue to try if it
failed on first attempt; thus making you wait 30s or 60s or 2mins or
whatever the applications timeout is. when you say 'problems telnetting in'
i take it you mean it is really slow and not that you simply cannot login
as in connection refused (?). i doubt your ISP has your 192.168. addresses
in their dns.
don
> Maybe so but wouldn't that disable dns lookups entirely? I am having
> basically the same problem BUT my machines have DNS entries and are not
> in etc/hosts. FWIW I am also having problens telnetting to this
> machine unless the machine I am telnetting in from is in etc/hosts.
> I am confused. Maybe my ISP has somehow hosed the nameserver. :(
>
