[syslinux] Question regarding PXELINUX taking long time for default config

[H. Peter Anvin]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
> Over here also less then one second to get to the default.
> 
> The trick is that the tftp server can do "reverse name lookup".
> There are two ways to make that possible:
>  
>   Have all clients in /etc/hosts
>      or
>   Have a Domain Name Server that has all PTR records.
> 

Interesting... hadn't thought about that, but yes, at the very least if
you have tcpwrappers compiled in (which virtually all distros do), then
it might well take a long time if reverse DNS isn't set up properly.

	-hpa

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