Telnet's are slow!!!!!

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:57:31PM -0000, Roger Hardiman wrote:
> > I've seen telnet run slow if DNS is not enabled or working properly do'nt
> know why but
> > someone here will.
> 
> I've seen it too, but never worked out why.

It's down to the telnetd doing a lookup of your IP address in the DNS,
so it can stick your hostname into various places (eg: logs, utmp).

> > SSH client from http://www.ssh.com
> 
> Another good Windows ssh app is putty
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

A big thumbs up to putty - a new version has just been released which
finally supports port forwarding.

-Dom