Slow telnet issue (Off-topic)

[Hawke]

you may need to run identd.
thats the problem I see with some remote shells when their
identd isn't working.

Hawke

"Blake B." wrote:

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> For some reason when people try to telnet into our Solaris box from
> outside our firewall it takes an incredibly long time to get the
> login prompt.  I have seen this issue before but I can't remember how
> the hell I fixed it.  At first I thought it was a reverse DNS lookup
> failure and so I setup DNS correctly on the client machine and it has
> no problem doing an nslookup, nor does it take a long time to do a
> traceroute or ping to the server with IP or name.
>
> This does the same thing when connecting to the server with
> Tarantella (the servers primary role is as our webtop application
> server.)  Anyone have any ideas here?  I'm running out!
>
> * Blake
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