From: Jarzombek, Svend (Svend.Jarzombek@ALCOA.COM)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 02:30:48 EST
We met a problem with slow telnet and ftp connections last year, that
was solved by using IPv4 in /etc/netsvc.conf:
hosts= local4, bind4
Svend
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
John Jolet
Sent: Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 22:23
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Telnet Slooooow
that makes sense...it simply times out if the resolver can't read the
hosts file, then moves on to resolving via bind.
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 15:07, Ron Bramblett wrote:
> 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
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