At 10:44 2/9/99 -0500, Joe Geiser wrote:
>> When I bring up Reflection, it says it is
>> accessing the HP via
>> TELNET, but I don't see a host prompt for over a full minute.  When I
>> disable logging, I get a host prompt immediately.
>
>Yup - logging takes a good deal of resource, and the logging, from what I
>understand, is at a very detailed level.
>
>Logging is used mostly as a diagnostic.  If you really don't need it, then I
>wouldn't use it.  If you're using it to catch the "bad guys" trying to break
>into your system, then I would rely more on a firewall first, and lacking
>that, use INETDSEC to set the networks which can access the system via
>Telnet.

Thanks.  There was a great deal of discussion a few weeks ago on internet
access and specifically telnet security issues, and one of the suggestions
was to enable logging.  I'll change what I'm doing as you suggest.