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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: telnetd on FreeBSD 2.1.0
Date: 24 Mar 1996 01:51:35 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Jim King <jim.king@mail.sstar.com> writes:

>telnet client connects right away, I see (using top) telnetd get started, but 
>nothing appears in the telnet client display for about 75 seconds.  THEN, I get 
>the FreeBSD login prompt.  Why the huge delay?

Does the machine have a name server it can get to ? It may be tring to resolve
the PC's name ?

	David.