RE: [TCLUG:8920] Telnet login prompt is slow

[Smith Jeremy <jrsmit2@uswest.com>]

Quoting mwtown@mmm.com (mwtown@mmm.com):
> This morning, I've just learned that my friend's server (which runs on his
> DSL line) started doing the same thing when his DSL line went down on
> Saturday morning.  He's running SuSE (one of the newer versions), so that
> rules out the distro package.

Your box is timing out on DNS requests and/or reverse name lookups. Try
setting up things in /etc/hosts or run a caching only DNS server.

Also, make sure that dns comes after hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Jer