telnet responce slow

[Sandeep Daphal]

Hi,

we have OSF1 V5.1 alpha server.when i telnet to server it give me login prompt after 1.5 min.
i check network connective through ping to sever it not show any problem.

can help me to find out porblem.

Thanks

Sandeep

[Steven Schweda]

A Forum search for keywords like
slow telnet
under Tru64 or HP-UX should find very many
similar threads, usually pointing to a DNS
problem (server can't do a reverse look-up
of the client's IP address to get its name).

Sometimes there's a network hardware or
configuration (speed, duplex) problem, but
it's usually DNS. Especially if the delay
is only at the beginning, when the connection
is being established.

[Nick Bishop (Kiwi)]

A quick and dirty solution is to add an entry to the /etc/hosts file.

Example:
1.2.3.4 client.domain.zz client

First element is IP address of where telnet command is being used, second element is FQDN (hostname) for that IP, subsequent elements are aliases (eg bare hostnames).

Nick.