slow telnet on Tru64 5.1

[robert hurst]

My Alpha running 5.1 has decided not to respond to telnet requests with any great speed, it takes several minutes for the login prompt to appear. however once logged in every seams fine.

Has anyone any idea's?

[Michael Denney · Accepted solution]

Sounds like a DNS problem. Check the IP resolution of the client using "nslookup" or "dig" on your TRU64 server.

[Steven E. Protter]

if telnet 192.168.0.10 works(thats an example) and telnet hostnamd is slow, its almost certainly a DNS issue.

check the repsonse on servers in /etc/resolv.conf with ping, nslookup and ping.

Get servers you can't ping the heck out of resolv.conf

check that /etc/nsswitch.conf goes dns before files on hosts

These taks all require root access

SEP

[robert hurst]

Thanks

All fixed now it was indeed the DNS.