>It could possibly be DNS... If you have a valid /etc/resolv.conf,
>remove it temporarily then try your ftp or telnet.
>>>When i telnet or ftp to my linux machine, i get very very slow response.
>>..
>>>The client shows that it has connected but I donot get the username prompt!
>>>If I keep waiting for long enough, then it appears...
>>I've had this; in my case it turned out that named was trying to connect
>>off site, over a dial-up link that was down. When it timed out, with
>>an unimportant error, the telent or ftp session came up.
Or, better, list the IP and name of the machine you are telnetting from
in /etc/hosts.
Microsoft telnet asks the machine it is telnetting into to tell it what
name it will be known by, a reverse lookup (Never found where they use
the returned name).
/etc/hosts is checked before a DNS query starts so you can short circuit
the timeout without disturbing /etc/resolv.conf.