From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 13:49:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7148B14C0B for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:49:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07472; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:54:34 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <36F95E2E.FDF15CB@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:50:38 +1100 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evan Parry Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet Troubles References: <19990323210654.A29804@lhasa.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evan Parry wrote: > > Here's a rather odd problem that I've encountered for the last couple months: > > Telnetting (or using ssh) to my FreeBSD box from the outside does not work. > 'telnet localhost' connects fine (as does using ssh to the localhost) but > telnet won't giving various error messages from 'operation timed out' to 'no > route to host'. > > The strange part of this all however is that other services work fine. Web, > FTP, SMTP all are able to connect fine from anywhere. Also, I did not > encounter this problem with Linux when I've tried it but all versions of > FreeBSD I've used (from 2.2.5) have had this. > > Any ideas? TIA > Are you trying to log in as root? If so, then it will always fail as the default installation disallows root logins from across a network. Having said this, it sounds as though you aren't even getting the Login: prompt - is this correct? If that is the case, then there is something else "getting in the way" - DNS doesn't seem likely as you can FTP, etc; firewalling may be a problem but I'd imagine that you'd be aware of that. Are you trying to telnet into your system from the 'net - if so, is your ISP passing telnet packets (they should be, but...). Basically I need more info. -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message