Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!dxcsjr.cern.ch!jenst From: jenst@dxcsjr.cern.ch (Jens Trier Rasmussen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: _SLOW_ response to login request Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 10:20:39 GMT References: <1990Sep17.203920.26835@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <2478.27090a9e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: news@cernvax.UUCP Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec Lines: 20 pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) writes: >In article <1990Sep17.203920.26835@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes: >> I had read in several previous postings of unusually long waits for >> logins under Ultrix and had only seen one solution - use a non-DEC >> version of bind. >> >> I am running Ultrix 3.1 (UWS 2.1) on a VaxStation II-GPX. Typical waits >> for valid logins are from 90-120 seconds, sometimes longer. The problem >> seems to be independent of machine load, request location (local, remote, >> or console) and communication program (rlogin, telnet, etc.). I've seen the same problem when I was using BIND and the nameserver was down. Check if you are using BIND and the sequence in /etc/svc.order (maybe put local before bind). regards Jens Trier Rasmussen CERN-CN/CS jenst@cernvax.cern.ch