Hmm... can you put a entry in the HOSTS file for 142489 that points to 127.0.0.1 and try to restart Zope to see if the problem goes away?

No, this does not work

Authentication was rewritten a dog's age ago, but I'm not sure if it made its debut in 2.5. In either case, 20 seconds to wait for an auth dialog is an exceptional situation that usually means that there's a DNS issue.

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