Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:04:57 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: IP changes in 2.3.4x make things wierd? |
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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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