Its basically a bug in BSD's TCP stack but that doesn't help and you
have to work around it because there are so many buggy systems out there.
> rlogin is still sluggish when logging into a Linux box but it doesn't
> seem to be Alpha specific. Haven't looked into what's going on.
> Alan, I suspect this is a known problem, can you point me to a place
> where this is discussed/explained.
Linux boxes generally do tcp wrapper and then direct DNS lookups. The linux
libc uses resolv+ which does its lookups in a slower more secure fashion as
well. If you put something like
echo "Hello starting"
at the top of your login script you should see the delay is all in startup
and not in the network layer.
Alan