Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: nicebounce AT trodman DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: is "inetd telnet slowness" fixed? (conflict w/FTP Software's InterDrive?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: From: Danilo DOT Turina AT alcatel DOT it Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:21:50 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" If you can't uninstall InterDrive, see also the thread "Telnetd hangs for a while before giving login prompt", in which raghav AT lionking DOT i2 DOT com says: Hi, Finally found what the problem is. Let me not get into technical details of this. But inetd runs as SYSTEM and home directory of SYSTEM will be set to "/". Edit passwd file and change the home directory of SYSTEM to something (e.g, /tmp). Restart the inetd. Now telnetd should work fine. :-) Raghav P.S. I already uninstalled InterDrive so I cannot verify if this applies also for me. Please, let me know if changing the home of SYSTEM is enough (i.e. letting InterDrive installed). ------------------------------------- Danilo Turina Alcatel Optics OND Network Management Rieti (Italy) - Phone: +39 746 600332 ------------------------------------- 1 anno 8 mesi 9 giorni 14 ore 30 minuti 14 secondi nicebounce AT trodman DOT com 18/12/2002 21.04 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: Subject: Re: is "inetd telnet slowness" fixed? (conflict w/FTP Software's InterDrive?) Dan: I suspect your right. I have FTP Software's InterDrive 4.0 (a NFS client) loaded on my PC. Unfortunately I need this for work. We've had other problems with InterDrive interfering with network printers. ssh, ftpd, cron, and rlogin work fine, so I'll cope ;-> thanks very much for your help, -- Tom Rodman perl -e 'print unpack("u", "\.\=\$\!T\I had the same problem some time ago and I found that it was caused by >FTP Software's InterDrive 5.0 (a NFS client). Uninstalling that product >all worked flawlessly. > >I think that, in general, a problem like that can be caused by "network >drivers" (possibly virtual ones) that causes broadcast or other lengthy >network iterations to be performed when someone tries to access the network. > >The same software causes a similar problem with Rational Rose (10 >minutes to load a simple model with InterDrive, 1 minute without >Interdrive). > >Ciao, > > Danilo Turina > >nicebounce AT trodman DOT com wrote: >> I just did a fresh install of 1.3.17 and setup telnetd. The login prompt >> is delayed by about 3 minutes! rlogin works just fine. >> >> This problem was described in detail >> in the mailing list towards the end of the summer. >> >> Is there a fix or a workaround? >> >> thanks/regards, >> Tom Rodman >> >> >> ------- Forwarded Message >> From: "Bruce Dobrin" >> To: >> Subject: inetd telnet slowness >> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:02:08 -0700 >> >> >> I wrote about a month ago with this problem, but didn't manage to work out >> a viable solution. >> >> If I stop inetd and run "in.telnetd -debug" All is well. It appears to >> capture the machine/user correctly and I am imediately logged in (bypassing >> the login/passwd prompt). >> >> With inetd running, telnet starts, then hangs for about 3 minutes, finaly >> ginving me a "Login:" prompt. I assume that Inetd didn't pass usable >> machine/user information to the in.telnetd, and that the delay and eventual >> "login:" prompt is in.telnetd timing out waiting for login information, >> but I could be wrong about this. Rlogind works fine with inetd, and I >> assume it uses a similar validation mechanism. I'd appreciate any >> assistance. >> >> >> The diff of the Debug logs with and without inetd: >> >> with inetd: >> - -------------cut-------------- >> td: send suboption NEW-ENVIRON SEND >> td: send suboption TERMINAL-TYPE SEND >> td: ttloop >> td: netflush 249 chars >> td: ttloop read 73 chars >> td: netflush 26 chars >> td: recv suboption NAWS 0 80 (80) 0 25 (25) >> - -------------cut---------------- >> ........XON VARIABLE|ACK 17; XOFF VARIABLE|ACK 19; FORW1 VARIABLE|ACK 0; >> FORW2 VARIABLE|ACK 0; >> td: netflush 404 chars >> td: Entering processing loop >> ##### >> ##right here is where it hangs for 3 minutes} >> ##### >> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) (genevieve) (tty2) >> td: netflush 84 chars >> td: netread 9 chars >> td: recv do ECHO >> td: recv will BINARY >> td: recv wont LINEMODE >> td: netflush 85 chars >> login: td: netflush 7 chars >> - -------------cut---------------- >> >> Without inetd: >> - -------------cut---------------- >> td: send suboption NEW-ENVIRON SEND >> td: send suboption TERMINAL-TYPE SEND >> td: ttloop >> td: netflush 249 chars >> td: ttloop read 131 chars >> td: netflush 27 chars >> td: recv suboption NAWS 0 80 (80) 0 25 (25) >> - -------------cut---------------- >> .......XON VARIABLE|ACK 17; XOFF VARIABLE|ACK 19; FORW1 VARIABLE|ACK 0; FORW2 >> VARIABLE|ACK 0; >> td: netflush 404 chars >> td: Entering processing loop >> td: netflush 30 chars >> td: netread 9 chars >> td: recv do ECHO >> td: recv will BINARY >> td: recv wont LINEMODE >> td: netflush 85 chars >> Fanfare!!! >> You are successfully logged in to this server!!! >> >> - -------------cut---------------- >> >> ------- End of Forwarded Message >> >> --v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v-- >> >> To: "James Garrison" >> cc: >> >> From: "Bruce Dobrin" >> Subject: Re: Telnet takes minutes >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Thanks for the quick response. >> >> >> Those particular machines (1.3.12) are all on different segments from each >> other, with different os's (NT,XP, and 2K). But I have tried from other >> machines on both the same and different segments, same result, and from >> different telnet clients (SGI, Linux, NT, Cygwin...) it seems consistant. >> I even telneted to "localhost" and to the machine name and ip from >> itself.... same result. I assume reverse DNS is configured as it works (I >> didn't know it was configurable).. as a side note, rsh/rlogin works like >> a champ.... >> >> >> > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/