_SLOW_ response to login request

[Jens Trier Rasmussen]

pemurray at miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) writes:

>In article <1990Sep17.203920.26835 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hudson at 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 at cernvax.cern.ch