Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:47 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DECserver problems Message-ID: <199501110459.UAA00328@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jan 95 23:56:00 EST." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950110235248.3448D-100000@remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu>
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>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)? You could try changing the lookup order in /etc/host.conf from bind then hosts to hosts then bind (IMO, we should make this the default), and then add a host entry for the DECserver in /etc/hosts. -DG
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