I think if you have (in your /etc/host.conf) bind listed before hosts
(meaning it will ask the dns server before looking at the hosts file),
it would delay if the dns server doesn't have a reverse entry for
127.0.0.1, which would take a long time.. But it still doesn't sound
right.. I had some similar problems with ssh, and patched it, which
fixed the (similar) problem for me..

Eric

Andrew Barros wrote:
>
> Yes, ns1.tjhsst.edu is on the same ethernet segment as the box.
>
> 127.0.0.1 is in /etc/hosts
>
> -ajb
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:25PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> ->On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:40:39AM -0400, Andrew Barros wrote:
> ->>
> ->> There are two things that I'm sure of
> ->>
> ->> 1) The boxes have correct reverse DNS
> ->>
> ->> 2) They use ns1.tjhsst.edu as their nameserver(a different box)
> ->> which has the correct reverse DNS
> ->>
> ->> The problem is that while these things are true, and out T1 is up
> ->> it works normally. When the T1 goes out, it takes a _long_ time. Telnet
> ->> ,however, is unaffected by this.
> ->
> ->When you say 'correct reverse DNS', you do mean 127.0.0.1 too, right?
> ->And (a stupid question, but one that needs asking nevertheless) ns1.tjhsst.edu
> ->is reachable when your T1 goes down, right?
> ->
> ->G'luck,
> ->Peter
> ->
> ->--
> ->If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical.
> ---end quoted text---
>
> --
> Andrew Barros <abarrostjhsst.edu>
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