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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use > > iQA/AwUBOcGrrYJjITnPnJ/REQKHxgCcC8ZlER7tPRARINV85/nC9EYPZX0An3po > WvcnwwSBGkdpwrjlosqgJAPK > =wYHe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss