From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 09:36:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA26425 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26414 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA27586; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:36:38 GMT Message-Id: <199606141636.QAA27586@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA176320197; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:36:37 -0600 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:36:37 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: hawk2@netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from hawky/Hawksmom on Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:05:00 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: telnet to freebsd box, says connected but never says "login:" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "hawky/Hawksmom" == hawky/Hawksmom writes: hawky/Hawksmom> I was having a similar problem, but when I left it hawky/Hawksmom> for a while it woukd get the logni prompt, the hawky/Hawksmom> problem was that the remote computer was looking hawky/Hawksmom> for the inomming connection via nameserver, It might also be that an intermediate router can't handle TCP extensions that FreeBSD has on by default. Try turning them off by setting tcp_extensions=NO in /etc/sysconfig and rebooting (or manually doing what setting tcp_extensions=NO causes to happen in /etc/netstart). -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/