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Re: another fact (mail timeout)




On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Tal Amir wrote:

> i 4got to mention that telnet from the local lan to that machine also
> takes ages, while from the outside its very fast..
> i guess that both things are related...what do i need to check ?


The server tries to find the name associated with the IP address that is
connecting (reverse DNS). The easiest solution is probably adding the
hosts to the /etc/hosts file.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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