From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 10 20:56:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA17704 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:56:17 -0800 Received: from remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu (remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu [130.132.57.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA17696 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:56:14 -0800 Received: (from mrami@localhost) by remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA03777; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 23:56:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 23:56:00 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez To: David Greenman cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DECserver problems In-Reply-To: <199501110447.UAA00302@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >I am running a FreeBSD 2.0R system here, and I am having a curious > >problem when trying to telnet into the machine from a DECserver (not sure > >of the model, speaks TCP/IP). I get the login: prompt and type in a > >valid username, then I see Password:, I type in the password, and nothing > >happens. I'm not sure if it's hanging before or after it tries to get > > How long did you wait? :-) Not very long; I'm an impatient person. :) > Seriously, this sounds very much like the DNS lookup is stalling - does > this sound like it could be the problem? If it is, it should magically come to > life after about 2 minutes. This very well could be it... I'll give it a try tomorrow. Assuming you are right, is there a way I can circumvent this problem (besides 'properly administer the network'... not in my hands)? Marc. -- DeForrest Gump - "Dammit, Jim! Life is like a box of chocolates!"