Actually that will not help much. The best way to solve this is to use
your /etc/hosts file because telnet checks this first before it checks the
DNS. so having entries in your hosts file for the machines from which you
telnet or do FTP will solve the rpoblem of course this assumes that your
host.conf file says
order hosts,bind
On 31 Jul 2000, Buckaroo Bonzai wrote:
> Date: 31 Jul 00 01:08:33 EDT
> From: Buckaroo Bonzai <Phobet@netscape.net>
> To: Gaurav Agarwal <gauravag@nde.vsnl.net.in>,
> Linux Net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: [dns issues]
>
> This might sound wierd, but you might try putting the local loopback address
> in your /ete/resolve.conf file. Ei:
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> I've found that there are some programs, when run on the DNS server, that will
> not use DNS correctly unless you do. I think one of those is telnet.
> <shrug>
>
> "Gaurav Agarwal" <gauravag@nde.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
> > hi all,
> > i just installed red hat linux 6.0 on my system ...
> >
> > now i was trying to configure the caching-only dns.
> > ( as it takes quite long to get the prompt when i telnet from other machine
> > on the network )
> >
> > for that i edited the /etc/named.conf file and added
> >
> > zone "5.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> > type master;
> > file "named.192.168.5";
> > };
> >
> > then i created the file /var/named/named.192.168.5
> > and put in the related hostname and domain name etc ..
> >
> > finally i restarted the named : /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
> >
> > still when i telnet 192.168.5.3 from my windows machine on the network, it
> > takes over 60 secounds to show the prompy
> >
> >
> > please guide me as to how to correct this...
> > thanks a tonne,
> > regards,
> > gaurav
> >
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