From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 23:19:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14923 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 23:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modern.art.cs.cmu.edu (MODERN.ART.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.206.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14913 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 23:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sourav@modern.art.cs.cmu.edu) Received: (from sourav@localhost) by modern.art.cs.cmu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA00800; Sat, 2 May 1998 02:18:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Sourav Ghosh Message-Id: <199805020618.CAA00800@modern.art.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: Problems with ppp In-Reply-To: <199805012320.AAA19824@awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "May 2, 98 00:20:08 am" To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 02:18:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: sourav@cs.cmu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sourav@cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello, > > > > I am having problems with ppp in FreeBSD (2.2.6). Over ppp, I cannot > > telnet or ftp to other FreeBSD machines. It does connect but the > > login prompt never appears and then it closes the connection after > > some time. > > > > I have no problems telneting/ftping to other unix machines (solaris, > > digital, Aix etc.). What could be reason behind this? > > > > Over netscape, I cannot connect to some sites including > > www.freebsd.org. It gives a timeout after some time. I don't know > > whether there is any possible relations between these two problems. > > Can you ``nslookup'' each machine both ways from each machine (8 > lookups per pair) ? > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Sourav > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > I did ``nslookup'' both ways 8 times. I was able to get the IP addresses. There is no problem with the name server. For example, the exact rersult I got is like this: telnet 128.2.206.187 Trying 128.2.206.187... Connected to MODERN.ART.CS.CMU.EDU. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. -- Sourav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message