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From: Richard Scranton <scrantr@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slow login on POP, FTP, and Telnet
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 11:10:19 -0500
Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus
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It's probably DNS - changed your resolver to

hosts
bind

James Webb wrote:
> 
>         Hey everyone, I have a system that's just starting out, it
> only has four current users.  It's running 2.1.6-Release on a 486DX33
> with 8MB of ram.  The logins on POP, FTP, and Telnet are all REALLY
> slow (most programs time them out).  Any idea why this could be?  I
> suspect the CPU, while my fellow "administrators" think it's the ram.
> Any ideas?  Thanks for any help.

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Richard Scranton - LDA Systems, Columbus
scrantr@ix.netcom.com