Re: Telnet Slooooow

From: Ron Bramblett (bramblet@FULLER.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 16:07:13 EST


It could be permissions on the hosts file itself.
I ran across that before and it was extremly slow to telnet before the
permissions got changed properly.

John Jolet wrote:
> couple of things right offhand. check and see what speed/duplex
> settings the box is set for. they MUST match what the switch it's
> plugged into is set for. in general, autonegotiate should be avoided.
>
> second, it could STILL be name resolution. see if that box has itself
> in /etc/hosts, and see what's in /etc/netsvc.conf....set it for local,
> bind and that might help.
>
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:44, David Knight wrote:
>
>>Admins,
>> I recently receive a new AIX Server in and the telnet connections
>>are extremely slow. From the console I can telnet to localhost with no
>>delay but all incoming telnet connections are extremely slow. after telnet
>>connects it takes a good minute for the login prompt. so I initially
>>thought that this was a Reverse DNS issue but after I am finally able to
>>log in every command I type takes abut 60 seconds to echo to the screen
>>and continue Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>O and the hosts that I am telnet from are in the /etc/hosts file and
>>nslookup/DNS seems fine.
>>
>>Thank in advance,
>>David Knight
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Aaron W Morris <aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM>
>>Sent by: IBM AIX Discussion List <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
>>01/13/2004 12:36 PM
>>Please respond to IBM AIX Discussion List
>>
>>
>> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>> cc:
>> Subject: Re: meet Problems when try to mount the floppy disk
>>
>>
>>JOSEPH KREMBLAS wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Looks to me like you destroyed the layout of the floppy disk when you
>>
>>were
>>
>>>asked to destroy it. You shouldn't be mounting a floppy disk anyway. Use
>>
>>the
>>
>>>dosread, dosdir, and doswrite commands to perform operations on the
>>
>>floppy
>>
>>>drive.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>>Paul. Vanchope
>>>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:29 AM
>>>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>>>Subject: meet Problems when try to mount the floppy disk
>>>
>>>
>>>Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
>>>Execute the following command in order to mount the floppy disk to a fs:
>>>#mkfs -V jfs /dev/fd0
>>>mkfs: destroy /dev/fd0 (yes)? y
>>>Device /dev/fd0:
>>>Standard empty filesystem
>>>Size: 2880 512-byte (UBSIZE) blocks
>>>Initial Inodes: 512
>>>#mkdir /flo
>>>#mount -o nointegrity /dev/fd0 /flo
>>>mount: 0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/fd0 on /flo: There is an input or
>>
>>output
>>
>>>error. Then i attempt to read file in the floppy disk: #dosread -D
>>
>>/dev/fd0
>>
>>>readme.txt chap.txt
>>>read: /dev/fd0: There is an input or output error.
>>>Abort, Retry, Ignore?
>>>
>>>Why the "mount" and "dosread" all fail ? (In Windows 2000 Server, the
>>
>>files
>>
>>>in the floppy disk could be successfully read out).
>>
>>You can also use the mtools that comes with AIX 5. With mtools, you
>>have commands available that emulate old dos commands:
>>
>>mdir
>>mformat
>>mcopy
>>mmove
>>mmd
>>mattrib
>>
>>All you do is reference the floppy drive like a dos drive letter, ie
>>"mcopy file.txt a:" or "mdir a:".
>>
>>--
>>Aaron W Morris <aaronmorris@mindspring.com> (decep)
>
>

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Ron Bramblett
Sys Admin
Fuller Brush Company


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