[Beds] Tonights meeting

[Alan James]

> 
> I can now ftp or ssh using the machine names : ftp clarke or ssh clarke, and
> the connection is quick as you would expect.
> 
> Why was the hosts entry required for this?

Check your log files. Before you made the change it said something like
ssh connection from 192.168.. now it says from clarke. The 30 seconds
delay was the timeout from the reverse DNS lookup. It was trying to find
a name to go with the ip address that just connected.