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From: wag@swl.msd.ray.com (Bill Gianopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slow login on POP, FTP, and Telnet
Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:23:11 -0500
Organization: Raytheon Company
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Dan Benjamin wrote:
> 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.

It might really be a problem with your DNS configuration.  It is probably
not correct and times out trying to do the reverse lookup on the IP address
trying to determine the connecting machines host name.

-- 
William A. Gianopoulos; Raytheon Company
gianowa@eo.ray.com
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This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.