From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 10 20:59:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA17779 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:56 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA17773 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:53 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA24625; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA00328; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199501110459.UAA00328@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Marc Ramirez cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DECserver problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jan 95 23:56:00 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:59:47 -0800 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)? 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