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In article <Added.0ZvbpCC00Ui3E7vk94@andrew.cmu.edu> Wolfgang Naegeli writes:

-RL "Bob" Morgan writes:
-- Personally, I've never understood why anyone would use
-- statically-assigned addresses, since they're harder to set up and have
-- no obvious benefits.  Are there applications that require them?

-1) I have not studied the causes and thus cannot explain it, but some
-Telnet hosts seem to take about 10 times longer (some 30 seconds as
-opposed to 2 to 3 seconds) to give me a logon prompt if I use a dynamic
-rather than a static address.

Your hosts are probably running unix.  Some unix systems seem to want
to do a reverse translation on the ip address when you connect before
they will give the login prompt.  (For example, our old Pyramid did this.)
It didn't care if the remote user had a static or dynamic address, if
it wasn't in the DNS, it waited.

I never figured out why unix would do such a silly thing, but there were
so many other more serious things to worry about with it, that I didn't
bother with this one.

	Alan