Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:04:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet problem Message-ID: <199508022104.OAA01014@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 95 13:47:35 PDT." <199508022047.NAA01741@ns.via.net>
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>I have a machine on a subnet (mask is 255.255.255.224) that I want to
>use as a firewall.
>
>I can telnet into the machine from the internet ok, but other machines
>on the local exposed net or the internal net can't connect to the
>telnet daemon.
>
>I get:
>
> fw: {4} telnet fw
> Trying 205.162.31.34...
> Connected to fw.vcsnet.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>and it just hangs...
>
>Any suggestions?
This looks like a local nameserver problem. Telnetd is trying to do the
host lookup and is hanging. After 2 minutes or so it should give up and
proceed with "login:".
-DG
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