Bug 57764

Summary:	Telnet clent slow to connect unless full DNS name is used
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <jhanson>
Component:	telnet	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	pekkas
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Description Need Real Name 2001-12-21 17:06:00 UTC

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Description of problem:

I have just upgraded my RedHat Linux machine from version 6.2 to version 
7.2 and I am having a problem with the telnet program. It seems that when 
I try to telnet to another device it is taking anywhere from 30 to 60 
second before I get the login prompt. This occurs only when I use the DNS 
name for the device I am trying to telnet to and when I leave off the 
domain part of the DNS name. An example would be "telnet xyz" I have the 
problem, but not if I use "telnet xyz.mydomain.com". If I do a "ping xyz" 
it works fine. I have check all my network setting and see no problem with 
configuration. I have the domain and name servers defined, and I checked 
the resolve.conf file and again see the name servers and domain defined in 
the file. If I telnet from my windows 2000 workstation, which is on the 
same local network as the Linux workstation, the telnet works just fine, 
and I see no difference on the windows workstation in doing a "telnet xyz" 
from a "telnet xyz.mydomain.com" in the time for the login prompt to come 
back. It is basically instantaneous. It also instantaneous in receiving 
the login prompt when doing a "telnet xyz.mydomAin.com" from the Linux 
workstation. The problem again is when I leave off the domain part of the 
address, in other words "telnet xyz" take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds 
to get back the login prompt. I did not have this problem while running 
Redhat 6.2. This problem only appeared after upgrading to Redhat 7.2 . Any 
suggestions to what is causing this problem.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.telnet xyz instead of telnet xyz.mydomain.com
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  it takes around 60 seconds to connect. 

Expected Results:  Should have connected instantly

Additional info:

I ran a data capture on this problem and found that the telnet program is 
not appending the local domain to the request, which is causing a rather 
long DNS search for the name. When I telnet to xyz the telnet program 
should be appending mydomain.com to the request, but the program is not 
doing that. Istead it is sending the name xyz to the DNS server and I am 
having to wait for the DNS failure before the program appends the 
mydomain.com to the host name xyz.

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2002-01-08 14:40:09 UTC

well, that is default behaviour... isn't it??

first resolv xyz, then append every search string to xyz as defined in 
/etc/resolv.conf and try to resolv that...

if you use xyz that often, just add it to /etc/hosts and give your 
xyz.mydomain.com that xyz as an alias.

ru
harald

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2002-03-12 22:31:50 UTC

This was probably caused of getaddrinfo and PF_UNSPEC:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57998