An outside vendor was in on Friday to install some additional hard drives.
Apparently he was also trying to do some unrelated config, and in the process
added dns to the hosts lookup in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
This particular machine is not set up for dns.
Needless to say this vendor will be reprimanded !
Thanks especially to Bismark Espinoza who was the first to reply specifically.
others were:
"zshouben@PCS.CNU.EDU"
"troy@intranet.org"
"jim@telecnnct.com"
"daves@adnc.com"
"shlam@ie.cuhk.edu.hk"
"tkn@VNET.IBM.COM"
original post:
>
> Hey sun admins,
>
> Solaris 2.5.1 on an Ultra I
> what are some of the causes of an extremely slow incoming telnet
connection.
>
> i.e
> host% telnet slowhost
> Trying xx.xx.xx.xx
> Connected to xx.xx.xx.xx
> Escape Character is '^j'.
>
> 30 seconds later....
>
> I get the login prompt.
>
> Telnet FROM slowhost is normal.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>