From: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can ping/traceroute, can't login/get web pages Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004231322300.7524-100000@uhunix2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0004231904320.10614-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > I'm having an interesting problem with a remote server. I can ping and > > traceroute to it with no problem (from several different locations), > > but when I try to login using either ssh or telnet, I can connect, but > > I get no login prompt. Apache is also accepting connections but not > > serving pages. Any thoughts? I'd be happy to provide more info, just > > let me know what you need. > > > # wait for many seconds > > ^C > > Received signal 2. > > If the server is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address from > which you're connecting, and is failing, this can happen. Apache can be > configured to do reverse lookups before logging, though this is > deprecated. If you wait for five or ten minutes, it might "work". On the > server, try running nslookup to do a reverse lookup of the client's IP > address. If it doesn't work, check your /etc/resolv.conf. > -- > Trevor Johnson Maybe I'm just a bit slow today, but why would that effect logins from ssh and telnet? Unfortunately, I won't have console access to the machine until tomorrow, so I can't try nslookup or check the resolv.conf. I'm also pretty sure Apache's not configured to do a reverse lookup. -- Matt -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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