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by p_sambamurthy

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Dear Sir/Madam,
pls provide me the solution, some times when i login thru telnet i used to connect immediately within seconds, sometimes it used to take more than 1 minute, pinging is <10ms.

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by Ryan Boudreaux140

Available network bandwidth can alter the response time depending upon traffic at varying times of the day. Another considreation, have you made any changes to your switch, hub, etc... that could affect packet loss? Look at what has changed on thenetwork as well.

by peter marshall

When you telnet to a host, that host does a reverse name lookup.

Without knowing how you resolve your local host names the easiest solution is to include your host and its IP address in the /etc/hosts file on the target machine. When you telnet to that machine it will know the IP address of your local machine, and the login prompt will be displayed in a few seconds.

Hope this helps

Peter

by wls

Peter is correct; you can validate this by using nslookup or dig. The name to IP will be fast, but the IP to name will take forever. Luckily, it's a simple DNS fix.

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