Sounds like your Server is very busy or something with
DNS might be screwed, so:
- Have a "vmstat 1 20" running and check if your server is very busy. Check for all CPU and PI/PO columns mainly.
- Ping the server from where you are trying to telnet to it and check if the milliseconds are very high.
- Try to ping it by hostname, FQDN and by IP-adress, to see if there is any difference.
- Try to telnet to a different server from where you originally tried it; try it from another workstation maybe.
- Compare the time while trying to login via ftp or ssh.
GL!
Zaxxon