From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 16:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.hawaii.edu (relay4.hawaii.edu [128.171.94.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 918F637B8EF for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rohrer@hawaii.edu) Received: from uhunix2.its.hawaii.edu ([128.171.44.7]) by relay4.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <130407(6)>; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:25:32 -1000 Received: from localhost by uhunix2.its.Hawaii.Edu with SMTP id <183010(3)>; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:25:25 -1000 From: Matt Rohrer To: Trevor Johnson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can ping/traceroute, can't login/get web pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:25:30 -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > I'm having an interesting problem with a remote server. I can ping and > > traceroute to it with no problem (from several different locations), > > but when I try to login using either ssh or telnet, I can connect, but > > I get no login prompt. Apache is also accepting connections but not > > serving pages. Any thoughts? I'd be happy to provide more info, just > > let me know what you need. > > > # wait for many seconds > > ^C > > Received signal 2. > > If the server is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address from > which you're connecting, and is failing, this can happen. Apache can be > configured to do reverse lookups before logging, though this is > deprecated. If you wait for five or ten minutes, it might "work". On the > server, try running nslookup to do a reverse lookup of the client's IP > address. If it doesn't work, check your /etc/resolv.conf. > -- > Trevor Johnson Maybe I'm just a bit slow today, but why would that effect logins from ssh and telnet? Unfortunately, I won't have console access to the machine until tomorrow, so I can't try nslookup or check the resolv.conf. I'm also pretty sure Apache's not configured to do a reverse lookup. -- Matt -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message