telnet and ftp

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> I get a message connected to 10.0.8.xx
> Then it takes about 1 to 2 minutes before being prompted for a user
> name.

If this is on an isolated or internal LAN, it's most likely that the boxen
are trying to reverse-resolve each other and cannot.  Try putting the
correct IPs and names of both boxen in /etc/hosts on each machine.  That
should solve the time-out problem.

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net

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