Re: Network problem

[Hugo van der Kooij <Hugo van der Kooij caiw nl>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Riccardo Mazza wrote:

> Hallo Everybody,
> 
> I've installed Red Hat Linux 4.1 on an Pentium computer connected in a
> small local network.
> 
> Linux works correctly on the LAN when I establish a connection (ftp, telnet
> ecc.) from the linux to anoter computer on the lan, BUT when I try to
> connect to the linux from another pc in the lan is strange: to estabilish
> the connection to the linux by telnet or ftp (with Win95 pc's) it requires
> about 3-5 (five) minutes. After estabilished the connection, the services
> (ftp or telnet) works correctly. The same is with the httpd daemon.
> 
> I suppose is a inetd problem, but I do not why.
> 
> The address and the netmask i've setted is correct, and there is not a DNS
> on the net.
> 
> Do someone knonws why ??

My best guess is that your linux system has a default behaviour of
checking everything with the DNS and it fails to find the reverse entries
of those PC's.

Advise: configure the DNS to contain both forward and reverse lookup
tables.

Hugo.

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