[plug] Telnet slow to resolve some hostnames

[James Devenish]

Hi,

Thanks for supplying the contents of configuration files. That's a
really pleasant thing to do. One was missing, though: /etc/resolv.conf
Also, your DNS server's main configuration file and possible the zone
file (if they aren't too large).

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20040113153246.00aa7a10 at 127.0.0.1>
on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:04:02PM +0800, Tim White wrote:
> I have qpopper running through ident. If I try to telnet into it using 
> certain hostnames it takes at lot longer than with others.

Without going much further, you can be pretty sure this is a DNS
misconfiguration :-)

> tim at linmedia:/etc$ cat hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.0.8     linmedia
> 192.168.0.8     linmedia.white.lan

I would recommend that you reformat the above two lines as:
192.168.0.8 linmedia.white.lan  linmedia