From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) When attempting to telnet into the Linux system, it requires between 30-60 seconds for system to respond with "login" prompt. Once connection is established, response time is OK. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Telnet into system from NT/Win98 system. Actual Results: After 30-60 seconds, system responds with expected "login" prompt. Expected Results: Login prompt should display in under 10 seconds.
It's trying to do a DNS lookup of where you're connecting from. Make sure the server machine's DNS is configured correctly, and that the client machine is resolvable.
We don't use DNS for name resolution; we use WINS. Is there any way to bypass this feature (whatever it may be), or use WINS for name resolution? Security isn't an issue, we're behind a firewall.
Could you please retry with: ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/telnet-0.17-16.src.rpm ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/telnet-0.17-16.i386.rpm ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/telnet-server-0.17-16.i386.rpm Bonus: security fixes to the recently discovered vulnerabilities