Re: Slow telnet/pop3 connection

Some additional info after cruising thru wireshark...

I'm seeing a sequence of ident (port 113) packets coming from the telnet server box. The client (a Windows Vista box) isn't sending
anything back.

Here's the rough timeline:

First ident packet arrives at the start of the connection attempt (after some preliminary stuff)

A second ident packet arrives after no response by the client for 3 seconds

A third ident packet arrives after no response by the client for 6 seconds

A fourth ident packet arrives after no response by the client for 12 seconds

Finally, after another 9 seconds the server "gives up" and initiates a telnet session (at least, there are a lot of packets marked
"telnet data" by wireshark at that point).

When I run wireshark against an attempt to the old telnet server there are no ident packets shown. The sequence jumps immediately
into what wireshark marks as "telnet data".

So obviously I have something configured or built differently between the two machines.

Do you have any thoughts as to why one version of telnet is using ident and the other isn't?

- Mark
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