Why is it slow?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:38:59PM -0400, koancui wrote:
> Thank your reply.
> I found another case: if i gave a FQDN(not including the last dot)
> there was no delay.
> hostA> telnet hostB.mydomain.com
> ----------------------------------------------
> Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
> Connected to B.
> Escape character is '^]'
> 
> OS
> 
> login:
> ---------------------------------------
> Certainly i had configured the /etc/resolv.conf on hostB
>     domain mydomain.com
>     nameserver hostA.ipaddress

Which does suggest the delay to be a lookup on host A.  What does the
resolv.conf look like on A?

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