telnet and ftp

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Sounds like you might be hanging on a DNS lookup...

-derek

Tom Guilderson <TWGuilderson at cvs.com> writes:

> 
> I just put linux on two systems (RedHat 6.0 out of the box) over the
> weekend and when I telnet or ftp to either system the following happens:
> 
> 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.
> I am eventually prompted and I get in fine, but I have never seen this
> before.  Both processes are spawned by inetd.  I checked inetd.conf -
> looks fine.  I checked the gettydefs file, saw nothing out of the
> ordinary.  My understanding of the process is that inetd listens for
> incoming connection requests, gets a request, calls the appropriate
> daemon, in.telnetd which will call getty(agetty, mingetty)???? to begin
> the login process.  getty then calls login with the username as an
> argument which then checks /etc/usertty, prompts forand checks the
> password, then sets some environmental variables (UID,GID, PATH,
> LOGNAMEetc) and starts the shell specified in /etc/passwd.
> 
> The problem seems to be somewhere in the pass off to telnetd, ftpd and
> the getty process.  I plan on running telnetd in debug mode on a
> different port and see what happens.
> 
> If any one has seen this before or has any ideas, I'd appreciate the
> help.
> 
> --
> 
> Tom Guilderson
> 
> 
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