Re: [LIH] telnet problem

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> If your server is very far away and has a slow link, and a slow IDE drive,
> and is overloaded this can happen due to timeouts. Also you might be
> having a slow link. In your case probably the server is overloaded.
> 
Another problem can be that if you're trying to telnet to a
local server, and the machine you're trying to telnet from
isn't in the "hosts" file, the server may time out trying
to authenticate your IP address. Put your local machine's
IP in the hosts file and see if that doesn't fix it.
	John