Network service startup time

[Lowell Gilbert]

Owen Becker <owen at careflow.com> writes:

> So I've noticed that when I try to connect to any network service on
> my new FreeBSD server,
> there is a significant startup delay. For instance, telnetting to port
> 25 (now postfix) seems to
> hang for about 10-15 seconds. Same with ftp. Any ideas as to what may
> be causing the delay?
> I'm running freebsd-stable as of yesterday.

Is that happening for local connections, or only remote ones?