From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 11:05:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13695 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from green.mail.postal.net (ejohnst@ejohnst.sccsi.com [207.90.224.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13690 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ejohnst@localhost) by green.mail.postal.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA10663; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:05:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:05:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric M. Johnston" To: Francis Vidal cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: can't telnet to linux host In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Linux may be rejecting your term type of cons25. Try either setenv TERM vt100 or telnet from an xterm. Another alternative is just to use rlogin, which doesn't seem to have the strict limitations on term that telnet does. One other thing you might want to do is add cons25 to your Linux termcap. On my RedHat system, I think I just added cons25 as another name for scoansi and it seemed to work OK. This doesn't fix the telnet problem, but makes the terminal much nicer if you're rlogging in. Eric On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Francis Vidal wrote: > hello everyone! > > something's really weird -- i can't telnet to my linux mail host from my > FreeBSD machine but i can telnet from the linux mail host to the FreeBSD > machine. the linux mail host is slackware 3.2 with shadow support. i > checked /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/login.access and > disabled everything but i can't still telnet to the linux host! am i > missing something here? > > i would appreciate if someone could enlighten me. > > > --- FRANCIS VIDAL, USLSnet, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, PH > P G P key available at -- ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp >