Slow telnet and ftp dns problems

Scotty2435 · 03-05-2002, 09:26 PM

When trying to login to my ftp or telnet servers from inside my lan it lags terribly and takes a long time to get to the login screen. It works fine once at the login screen but takes forever to reach it. When I alter nsswitch.conf and change this entry
hosts: files dns

to this entry

hosts: files

it fixes the problem but now my linux box can't lookup hostnames in terminal apps like ftp and lynx. Please help

Thanks

Mik · 03-06-2002, 09:17 AM

The line means it will first search files (/etc/hosts) and then the dns. So if you add the entry in /etc/hosts then it won't try looking in dns for that server.

Scotty2435 · 03-06-2002, 11:01 AM

that works fine for comps on my lan but when I need to connect from a random place the entry won't be there. Are there any other ways to fix it?
thanks

Scotty2435 · 03-06-2002, 01:36 PM

is there any way to disable reverse dns for all of my xinetd services pop, ftp, and telnet