[ale] RH6.0 and enabling 'telnet' and sibs

[Gary Maltzen]

try adding "-a off" to the telnetd line in /etc/inetd.conf so that it
doesn't attempt a reverse hostname lookup

from `man telnetd`

  ..snip..

  The telnetd program accepts the following options:

  -a authmode  This option may be used for specifying what mode should be
               used for authentication.  Note that this option is only use-
               ful if telnetd has been compiled with support for authenti-
               cation, which is not available in the current version.  The
               following values of authmode are understood:

               debug ...

               user ...

               valid ...

               other ...

               none   This is the default state.  Authentication informa-
                      tion is not required.  If no or insufficient authen-
                      tication information is provided, then the login(1)
                      program will provide the necessary user verification.

               off    This disables the authentication code.  All user ver-
                      ification will happen through the login(1) program.



-----Original Message-----
 From: Bob Kruger <bkruger at mindspring.com>

To all in ALE - is there a way to disable this so that on a small network
without a DNS or editing the /etc/hosts file one can telnet in without the
annoying time delay?

Regards - Bob