From: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier) Subject: [NET]: PROBLEMS WITH Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:45:00 GMT
MB> Some telnet/ftp daemons perform an RFC 931 reverse lookup to
MB> find out who is connecting to them. If the remote machine
MB> (the Linux box, here) doesn't run an RFC 931 server, the daemon
MB> will time out before giving up. This can give the appearance of
MB> a hang up. Worse, certain other problems are also seen with RFC 931
MB> sometimes (although usually associated with packet filtering) and
MB> these can cause real hang ups.
MB> This may not be the problem here, but it might be worth
considering.
That was *exactly* the problem...I solved it by running my own name
server (quite hard to achieve!).....
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