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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:27:55 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        marki@paradise.net.nz (Mark Ibell)
Cc:        sean@stat.Duke.EDU, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet/tcp problems in 4.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200007010127.SAA09125@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <395D317A.D56E2AC@paradise.net.nz> from Mark Ibell at "Jul 1, 0 11:47:06 am"

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As I recall, Mark Ibell wrote:
> Sean O'Connell wrote:
>> This sounds like a dns problem though.  Do reverse look ups
>> work?  Telnet usually does a forward and a reverse lookup.  Also,
>> make sure that this isn't an autonegotiation (speed and duplex) error
>> on the NIC.

How about ident?  Some telnet daemons want to validate your
connection by using ident.  If yours does, and your client doesn't
respond, it'll hang like you're seeing as it times out the attempt.

	-crl
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Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
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