Re: Help ! Telnet takes forever !

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From: Andrew Mather
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:00

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Tony Langdon wrote:

>  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 

> 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.

Yep, the line was there alright, as above, but the problem persisted
until on someone's suggestion I had 2 files, one with the ISP nameserver
and one with only local, which are copied into place by the ppp-up and
ppp-off scripts.

Works fine !

My X-apps are happy again !

Andrew

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From: Andrew Mather <amsm@deakin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Help ! Telnet takes forever !
Date: 1997/08/18
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