From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 4:35:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4301.mail.yahoo.com (web4301.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.104.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC78237B544 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martinmact@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000713113553.6087.qmail@web4301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.13.35.47] by web4301.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:35:53 PDT Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:35:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Mactaggart Subject: Re: My telnet has been possed by a demon (I can't telnet to my FreeBSD machine anoymore) To: David Kirchner , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the info David :) I'll let you all know how this turns out; first I have to go to work and then I have to read some man pages, so it might take me a day or two. Oh yeah, I just finished busting my kernel, but that shouldn't take too long to fix. I'd've [ignorantly] thought that having an /etc/hosts file circumvents the DNS... Is that wrong? On a completely irrelevant note, I'm looking at "just finished busting my kernel" and thinking there should be a web page devoted to things heard in IT land that would make no sense to a noncomputer person ("I'm an admin, use me"). Once again hopeful, Martin --- David Kirchner wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Martin Mactaggart wrote: > > > Having said that, if my win2k machine is connected to the > internet, > > it seems to work (!?). The win2k machine is configured as the > Gateway > > and DNS of the FreeBSD machine (yes, I know that's backwards). I > can > > always ping back and forth with no packet loss, though... > ^^^ > > I'd put my money on it being a problem with DNS timeouts. Try running > bind > on your FreeBSD box and have it handle the forward & reverse DNS for > your > LAN. > > -- > David Kirchner, dpk@nwserv.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message