On one of of solaris 7 boxes whenever i telnet or ftp it takes sometime before i get the prompt...any quick ideas where I should look...Thanks
When i have troubls with connecting (it looks slow when i connect to a server) it ha smost times todo that the server has no dns entry. So this could be by you also be the problem.
This problem also occures when the server uses identd to help authenticate and the their is a problem with identd on the client side. This is similar to the DNS problem; basically something going amiss to slow down the process. Often putting a sniffer and watching the packets whiz by solves quickly identifies the problem (either DNS or identd or both).
indeed was a DNS issue...Thanks guys...