Tom Eastep is absolutly right
Serge Tensen and Troutman are way off base... well, Serge has a work around,
but your system will not be very usable after his suggestion....
Only reason why I am posting this is becuase I thought Tom Easteps explination
needed just a little bit more clarification....
To fix your problem, you need to completly setup all computers in your
/etc/hosts file (not partially). Make sure that the hosts file has not only the
IP, and Local Name of a computer on your internal network, BUT it also must
appear with the DOMAIN NAME
Example:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
10.100.100.1 newbie
THIS IS BAD!!!!
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
10.100.100.1 newbie newbie.newbiencentral.org
THIS IS GOOD!!! Especially if u plan on ftp'ing or telneting to newbie.
adding the name.domain to the hosts file will indeed correct your problem and
ur ftp and telnet connections will again be zippy!
I just ran into the same problem and although commenting the nameserver out of
ur resolv.conf file with speed things up, it doesn't REALY fix things, becuase
then u won't be able to resolve names to IP address and then where would you
be?! Back at square one again with a DNS server, but a long wait to telnet or
ftp to your linux box :)
Cheers!
-Chris
Quote:>hey guys..
>I'm running into a problem with my linux box, when I connect to the
>machine via ftp or telnet, it sits there for a while until it
>connects.. once it connects it's pretty fast, but the connect wait
>time is driving me mad.. the wait time is even long if I just telnet
>to my SMTP port.. I'm running Apache on it as well, and there is no
>wait time when I pull up the web pages from that machine..
>I'm running Red Hat 5.2 and 6.1 with the corresponding versions of
>wu-ftpd and anonftp..
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