On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Svein E. Seldal wrote: > So, I'm rephrasing the question: "What can be the reason that the router > is having such long initial delays on connections?" Did you check that all the ip that are used to connect have some kind of entry in /etc/hosts or can be resolved quickly with a DNS server. I noticed some ftp daemons are doing a reverse resolving of the ip and if the domain name server is innaccessible or slow it can take a long time for the time outs.