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    SubjectRe: IP changes in 2.3.4x make things wierd?
    David S. Miller writes:
    > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:22:55 -0500 (EST)
    > From: Vince Weaver <weave@eng.umd.edu>
    >
    > I've gotten the same sort of results with 2.3.44, 2.3.45, and
    > 2.3.46. Both "login" and "telnet" hang for about 20-30 seconds
    > before they let me log in. I reported this to the list twice
    > [rather badly though because I really can't track down exactly what
    > causes the problem] and was ignored...
    >
    > Disable NIS entirely on your system. The C library is trying
    > to lookup hostnames and user names using NIS, and since you aparently
    > have no NIS or portmapper running, it times out trying to contact
    > that server.
    >
    > In glibc you can control this with /etc/nsswitch.conf
    > In libc5, sorry I have no idea how to turn it off there.
    > Perhaps someone else can help out on the libc5 case.

    With libc5 it's the same story: edit /etc/nsswitch.conf

    Regards,

    Richard....
    Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
    Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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