On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: > has anyone ever had delays when connecting to a linux box before? I go > to telnet into another linux box or even ftp for that matter, and it > just sits there for about 1 minute and then connects like everything is > all right. Has anyeon else had this problem? Yeah, it usually has to do with the serving machine trying to reverse-lookup the connecting machine. I think I've only gotten it when using private IP ranges (192.168, for example). Btw, you're not supposed to be using telnet and ftp anyway. :) John -- # John Madden weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 2EB9EA # Sys-Admin / Webmaster, Avenir Web: http://avenir.dhs.org # LANdb: Network Admin Database - http://avenir.dhs.org/landb/ # NCPweb: Web-based frontend to ncpfs - http://avenir.dhs.org/ncpweb/ # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free! ============================================================= Avenir Web's Linux Discussion List List info: http://avenir.dhs.org/linux/discussion.html To unsubscribe: email linux-discussion-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx =============================================================