Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 11:12:18 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Adam Breaux <freebsd@idomains.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet Message-ID: <3784EA02.CC284863@3-cities.com> References: <00ba01bec956$32ae0b70$1e01a8c0@altronics.com>
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> Adam Breaux wrote: > > For some reason, on at least 2 FreeBSD boxes I run, the telnet service > goes to sleep. Attempts to telnet to either box connects but the login > prompt is never displayed. A ping of either box verifies they're up > and running. Both boxes are running 3.2-RELEASE. This seems to be a common reverse DNS problem. You have one machine in the host table and the client isn't in the destination machine's host table. When you telnet to the destination, the destination machine can't find the client's ip address and appears to be a sleep. Kent > > Any ideas? > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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