Re: Very annoying hanging problem.....

From: Daniel A. Koepke (dkoepke@california.com)
Date: 10/05/99


On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jamie Nay wrote to CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca:

> OK, here's the problem...... nobody can get past the "connected to blahblah"
> message, it just stays there... no greeting, no login, nothing. I have NO
> IDEA what's wrong... syslogs don't show anything out of the ordinary.
> Here's my info: Circle bpl15, Cygnus b20, windows 98.... yeah yeah yeah,
> linux is coming.... eventually.

For the third time in the past month, this is probably your nameserver.
Set nameserver_is_slow to YES in config.c and recompile or read the
September (and maybe even October) 1999 archives for more comprehensive
replies.  Specifically, search for "nameserver", "DNS", and "slowns".

-dak


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