Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:12:32 +0100 From: "Martyn Routley" <martynr@invictanet.co.uk> To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Chad Ziccardi" <zicc@bellatlantic.net> Subject: RE: ftp & telnet Message-ID: <NDBBKODAOKAJLGIOGBIACECACLAA.martynr@invictanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <39325C56.EA77009C@bellatlantic.net>
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Chad I love you! (figuratively speaking of course!!!!!) I updated hosts file on each machine and all is well. Martyn Routley ----------------------------------------------------- InvictaNet - The Internet in Plain English, Guaranteed http://www.invictanet.co.uk mailto:info@invictanet.co.uk phone: 0870 7402252 fax: +44 (0)1233 334001 ------------------------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Ziccardi [mailto:zicc@bellatlantic.net] > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:03 PM > To: support@invictanet.co.uk > Subject: Re: ftp & telnet > > > Customer Support wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I have just installed FreeBSD3.4 on a new server that I want to put online asap. > > > > My problem is that when I try to telnet or ftp to this server, the conection just sits and waits until it > > eventually times out. > > > > This happens when trying to connect from another FreeBSD machine (3.4 & 4.0) and also from a Win98 machine. > > > > All these machines are currently on a 192.168.* network and all other services (DNS, HTTPD etc)seem to work fine. > > > > Anyone have any ideas please? > > Perhaps the server is performing a dns lookup of the name, if nothin else, > add a generic name in /etc/hosts for the computer that is running > telnet/ftp, if I remember it *should* connect after the dns times out, > somewhere between 60-180 seconds I believe. > > --CZ > > Chad Ziccardi > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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