Help ! Telnet takes forever !

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From: Tony Langdon
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:00

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It's 15 Aug 97  00:25,
We'll return to Andrew Mather and All's
discussion of Help ! Telnet takes forever !

 AM> I have a small LAN of 2 machines.  One exclusively RH4.1 with 2.0.30
 AM> kernel, compiled for IP Masqerading.  This machine acts as my Internet
 AM> gateway and Linux Server generally.

 AM> The other machine runs Win95/RH4.1.

 AM> The problem is that it takes AGES to connect between the local
 AM> machines. If the PPP link is up, it's quick as you like, but otherwise,
 AM> it's 90 or more secs.  Once the connection is actually made, eveything
 AM> is nice and quick.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf on the Linux box.  Make sure the line:

order    hosts,bind

is in there.  (you may find it's there, but with "hosts" and "bind"
swapped).  This change forces Linux's name resolver to query the hosts
file first, instead of trying to look up on a non-existent DNS (while
you're offline) first.

... There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer ...
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